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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_138731" /> ==
 
<p> (1): </p> <p> (v. t.) To give a license to. </p> <p> (2): </p> <p> (n.) A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy. </p> <p> (3): </p> <p> (n.) One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor. </p> <p> (4): </p> <p> (n.) On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor. </p> <p> (5): </p> <p> (n.) One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology. </p>
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<p> is a person authorized by the Church authorities to preach, and who thus becomes eligible to a pastoral charge. (See [[License]]). </p>
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_48451" /> ==
 
<p> (from Lat. licet, it is lawful), one of the four ancient university degrees. It is no longer in use in England, except at [[Cambridge]] as a degree of medicine. In [[France]] and Germany, however, where it is more general, a licentiate is a person who, having undergone the prescribed examination, has receive(d permission to deliver lectures in the university. When the degree is given as an honor, it is intermediate between [[Bachelor]] of [[Arts]] and Doctor. </p>
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<ref name="term_48468"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/licentiate+(2) Licentiate from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_138731"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/licentiate Licentiate from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_48451"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/licentiate Licentiate from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
       
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Latest revision as of 10:04, 15 October 2021

Licentiate [1]

is a person authorized by the Church authorities to preach, and who thus becomes eligible to a pastoral charge. (See License).

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