Licentiate vs Magister - What's the difference?
licentiate | magister |
A person who holds the academic degree of license.
One who has a licence to exercise a profession.
* Johnson
A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.
One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty.
Master; sir: -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
The possessor of a master's degree.
As nouns the difference between licentiate and magister
is that licentiate is a person who holds the academic degree of license while magister is master; sir: -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.licentiate
English
(wikipedia licentiate)Noun
(en noun)- a licentiate in medicine or theology
- 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.
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