licentiate

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licentiate /lʌɪˈsɛnʃɪət/

▶noun

• 1 the holder of a certificate of competence to practise a particular profession.

• 2 (in some foreign universities) a degree between that of bachelor and master or doctor.

• 3 a licensed preacher not yet having an appointment, especially in a Presbyterian Church.

– derivatives
licentiateship noun.

– origin C15: from med. L., noun use of licentiatus ‘having freedom’, based on licentia ‘freedom’.