licentiate

Late Latin licentiātus, from licentiō (“to allow to do something”).

• IPA^(key): /laɪˈsɛnʃiət/

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

   • 1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Samuel Garth" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet

     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. One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty.
   • 1640, Bishop Hall, Christian Moderation:

     a Licentiate of Paris takes upon him to defend

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [lɪ.kɛn.tiˈaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [li.t͡ʃen.t͡siˈaː.te]

licentiāte

1. vocative masculine singular of licentiātus