Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is granted a license by an authorized body to practice a specified profession.
- noun A degree from certain European and Canadian universities ranking just below that of a doctor.
- noun One holding such a degree.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give license or permission to; encourage by license.
- noun 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.
- noun One who has license to practice an art or a profession.
- noun Specifically— A friar licensed by the Pope to hear confession, grant absolution, and inflict penance in any place independently of the local clergy.
- noun 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.
- noun One who behaves in a licentious manner; one who transcends the bounds of due restraint and decorum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To give a license to.
- noun One who has a license to exercise a profession.
- noun obsolete A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.
- noun obsolete One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor.
- noun On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who holds the
academic degree oflicense .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun holds a license (degree) from a (European) university
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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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 American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890 Various
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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.
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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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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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.
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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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He receives that licentiate of benchmark is woman of distrust of history, conversely more prominent of a … chapelhillnews. com | Authors promote literacy council
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He receives that licentiate of benchmark is woman of distrust of history, conversely more prominent of a …
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He receives that licentiate of benchmark is woman of distrust of history, conversely more prominent of a …
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O'Connell holds a licentiate and doctorate in canon law from Catholic.
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