[f. LICENTIATE v.: see -ATION.] The action of licensing; now only, the granting of a licence, e.g., to a medical practitioner.
1643. J. Freeman, Serm., 35. There is a tacite licentiation or permission of errour.
1880. E. Robertson, in Encycl. Brit., XI. 19/2. The system of medical licentiation is year by year becoming more stringent and more centralized.
