licentiate

Late Latin licentiatus, from licentiare (“to allow to do something”).

licentiate (plural licentiates)

1. A person who holds the academic degree of license.
2. One who has a licence to exercise a profession.

   a licentiate in medicine or theology

   • Johnson

     The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, to give gratuitous advice to the neighbouring poor.

3. A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

4. One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hall to this entry?)

licentiāte

1. vocative masculine singular of licentiātus