licentiate
- n holds a license (degree) from a (European) university
- With a year and a half off to become a licentiate in canon law, he stayed on in Africa for twelve years.
- William Miller, Baptist licentiate, began to preach in 1831 of the Second Advent of The Christ.
- After winning his licentiate (graduate degree) in theoretical physics, he worked for a while for the Swedish weather bureau, where he decided "the prospects looked pretty bleak.