Definition of "licentiates" [licentiates]

• Plural form of licentiate. (noun)

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• "-- They likewise confer the titles of bachelor, licentiate and doctor; but the future bachelor is not prepared by them; the lycée furnishes him for the examination, fresh from its benches; they have then no audience but future licentiates, that is to say a few schoolmasters and a licentiate at long intervals who wants to become a doctor in order to mount upward into the university hierarchy."
• "Bossuet will take a little turn in the court and talk with the young law licentiates."
• "Rochelle; and whatever licentiates and bachelors may say, the"