Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who is granted a license by an authorized body to practice a specified profession.
- n. A degree from certain European and Canadian universities ranking just below that of a doctor.
- n. One holding such a degree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To give license or permission to; encourage by license.
- n. One who has license to practice an art or a profession.
- n. Specifically— A friar licensed by the Pope to hear confession, grant absolution, and inflict penance in any place independently of the local clergy.
- n. In non-episcopal churches, as the Presbyterian, a person licensed to preach and perform the ordinary services of public worship, prior to being ordained as a pastor.
- n. One who behaves in a licentious manner; one who transcends the bounds of due restraint and decorum.
- n. The condition of having a license; specifically, in continental Europe, an academical dignity which intervenes between the baccalaureate and the doctorate, and is a step toward the doctor's degree.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who has a license to exercise a profession.
- n. obsolete A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.
- n. obsolete One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor.
- n. On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor.
- v. obsolete To give a license to.
WordNet 3.0
- n. holds a license (degree) from a (European) university
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Medieval Latin licentiātus, from past participle of licentiāre, to allow, from licentia, authorization; see license. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And Avery at that time gave something called a licentiate of instruction, which is equal to two years of college today, and I took that.”
“One of the preachers wanting to be known as a licentiate, said in meeting: "I want you to know that I am a licentious preacher," -- which is the truth.”
“The other answered how he was called the licentiate, John Perez of Viedma, and, as he had heard, he was born in a village of the mountains of Leon.”
“Be this as it may, Bonaventure received in 1248 the "licentiate" which gave him the right to teach publicly as Magister regens, and he continued to lecture at the university with great success until 1256, when he was compelled to discontinue, owing to the then violent outburst of opposition to the Mendicant orders on the part of the secular professors at the university.”
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“After receiving a licentiate degree in canon law in 1981 from St. Paul University in Ottawa, Father Martin returned to Washington and resided at Holy Trinity Church from 1981 to 1986.”
“Carlson's licentiate thesis (written at CUA in 1979*) was entitled The mission of the diocesan priest to preach in light of the Second Vatican”
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“The doctoral degree required no further studies, only an additional exam, and in some cases was conferred on the candidate only a few days after the licentiate.”
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