licentiate

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: li=cen=ti=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

licentiate, n. [LL. licentiatus, fr. licentiare to allow to do anything, fr. L. licentia license. See License, n.].

•  One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology.  [1913 Webster]

  "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."  [1913 Webster]
•  A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor.  Bp. Hall.  [1913 Webster]
•  On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor.  [1913 Webster]

licentiate, v. t. 

 To give a license to.  L'Estrange.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

licentiate, n.
1 a holder of a certificate of competence to practise a certain profession, or of a university licence.
2 a licensed preacher not yet having an appointment, esp. in a Presbyterian church.

Etymology

ME f. med.L licentiatus past part. of licentiare f. L licentia: see LICENCE