Associations to the word «Licentiate»

Wiktionary

LICENTIATE, noun. A person who holds the academic degree of license.
LICENTIATE, noun. One who has a licence to exercise a profession.
LICENTIATE, noun. A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.
LICENTIATE, noun. One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty.

Dictionary definition

LICENTIATE, noun. Holds a license (degree) from a (European) university.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope