licentiate

One who is granted a license by an authorized body to practice a specified profession.

A degree from certain European and Canadian universities ranking just below that of a doctor.

One holding such a degree.

To give license or permission to; encourage by license.

The condition of having a license; specifically, in continental Europe, an academical dignity which intervenes between the baccalaureate and the doctorate, and is a step toward the doctor’s degree.

One who has license to practice an art or a profession.

Specifically— A friar licensed by the Pope to hear confession, grant absolution, and inflict penance in any place independently of the local clergy.

In non-episcopal churches, as the Presbyterian, a person licensed to preach and perform the ordinary services of public worship, prior to being ordained as a pastor.

One who behaves in a licentious manner; one who transcends the bounds of due restraint and decorum.