Vocabulary : Profession to Professoriate

Profession : 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 entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.
Professional : Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. ;; Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur. ;; A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.
Professionalism : The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; -- opposed to amateurism.
Professionalist : professional person.
Professionally : In a professional manner or capacity; by profession or calling; in the exercise of one's profession; one employed professionally.

Professor : One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. ;; 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.
Professorial : Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest.
Professorialism : The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
Professoriat : See Professoriate.
Professoriate : The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college. ;; A professorship.

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