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an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)

affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith; "a profession of Christianity"

an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)

affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith; "a profession of Christianity"

The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.

That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.

That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry.

The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.

The act of declaring; an open declaration; religious faith; a pretense; calling or vocation, especially one that requires learning; as, the profession of medicine; all the persons engaged in any one calling.

1. A vocation or calling, the following of which demands special knowledge in some branch of science; specifically, in medicine, the medical profession. 2. The general body of medical practitioners.

Act of professing; declaration; employment; body of persons engaged in any profession.

Professional.

An occupation that involves a liberal education. and mental rather than manual labor.

The act of professing, or that which is professed.

Open declaration of one's sentiments or belief; open declaration; a vocation, occupation, or calling, such as implies a measure of learning; the collective body of persons engaged in a profession; entrance under a sacred vow into a religious order.

Open declaration of belief, or one's sentiments; public avowal; any business or calling engaged in for subsistence, not being mechanical, in trade or in agriculture, and the like-opposed to a trade; the collective body of persons engaged in a particular profession, as in law or medicine; in R. Cath. Ch., formal entrance into a religious order.

n. Act of professing; open declaration ; public avowal ; - that which one pro-fesses ; a declaration ; .an avowal ; a claim :-the occupation to which one devotes himself ; calling ; vocation ; employment ; - the collective body of persons engaged in a calling ;-act of taking a religious or monastic vow. Learned profession, such as requires a previous college education in its licentiates or practitioners, as law, medicine, and divinity.