Definitions for licentiate

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licentiate li·cen·ti·ate

Spelling: [lahy-sen-shee-it, -eyt]

IPA: /laɪˈsɛn ʃi ɪt, -ˌeɪt/

Licentiate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 382 anagrams from letters in licentiate (aceeiilntt).

Definitions for licentiate

noun

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.

Origin of licentiate

1350-1400; Medieval Latin licentiātus, noun use of past participle of licentiāre to authorize. See license, -ate

Examples for licentiate

The preceding year, Maffitt was listed simply as "licentiate."

They disrobed the licentiate, who remained where he was; and there is an end of the story.

Richer says his name was Roch Richard and that he was licentiate in theology.

A person of the same name was a licentiate at St. Andrews in 1501.

He became a licentiate of the College of Physicians on the 30th of September 1756.

This he did with money he secured from the licentiate Espinosa, a lawyer.

He also passed through all the degrees of licentiate, master, and doctor of arts.

The licentiate Alvares de Caravajal was alcalde mayor from 1554 to 1558.

In the course of the year the licentiate Don Juan Roxer arrived.

From the University he received the title of licentiate of Law in 1895.