PROFESSOR
\pɹəfˈɛsə], \pɹəfˈɛsə], \p_ɹ_ə_f_ˈɛ_s_ə]\
Definitions of PROFESSOR
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.
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By William R. Warner
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One who professes: one who publicly practices or teaches any branch of knowledge: a public and authorized teacher in a university.
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PROFESSORIAL.
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PROFESSORSHIP.
By Daniel Lyons
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PROFESSORIAL.
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PROFESSORSHIP.
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One who makes profession, as of religion.
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Professorly.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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One who professes, specially faith in the Christian religion; a teacher of any science or branch of learning; a university teacher.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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One who professes; one employed to teach any science or branch of knowledge in a university or college; one visibly and outwardly religious.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. One who makes open profession of his sentiments or opinions ; especially, one who makes a formal profession of religion ;-a public teacher of any science or branch of learning ;-a member of a university or college sonatas, who delivers lectures or oral instructions in languages, literature, science, or philosophy;-one who shows visibly his religious faith and practice ;-also, improperly, one who pretends or exhibits skill and dexterity, as in legerdemain, acrobatism, &c. ;-an empirical practitioner in medicine, &c.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.