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Definition of Licentiate
1. Noun. Holds a license (degree) from a (European) university.
Definition of Licentiate
1. n. One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology.
2. v. t. To give a license to.
Definition of Licentiate
1. Noun. A person who holds the academic degree of license. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Licentiate
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Medical Definition of Licentiate
1. 1. One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology. "The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, to give gratuitous advice to the neighboring poor." (Johnson) 2. A friar authorised to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy. 3. One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor. 4. On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor. Origin: LL. Licentiatus, fr. Licentiare to allow to do anything, fr. L. Licentia license. See License. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Licentiate
Literary usage of Licentiate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1895)
"Fellow, licentiate, or extra licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of
... Fellow or licentiate of the Royal Collega of Physicians of Edinburgh. 4. ..."
2. The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane by Alain René Le Sage (1854)
"E were so much afraid of coming too late, that we made but one leap from the
alley to the house of the old licentiate. We knocked at the door, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"licentiate ; an academical dignity between the baccalaureate and the ...
licentiate also signifies the person who hue received the degree. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The other faculties confer only the degrees of licentiate and doctorate. By the
appropriation to the university of the profit on the public supply of water ..."
5. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts (1859)
"Fellow, licentiate, or extra licentiate of the Royal College of ... Fellow or
licentiate of the King's and Queen's College of Physicians of Ireland. 4. ..."
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