licentiate

licentiate
licentiateship, n.licentiation, n.
/luy sen"shee it, -ayt'/, n.
1. a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
2. the holder of a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor, now confined chiefly to certain continental European universities.
[1350-1400; < ML licentiatus, n. use of ptp. of licentiare to authorize. See LICENSE, -ATE1]

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