Word Meanings - PROFESSED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, a professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian. The professed , a certain class among the Jesuits bound by a special vow. See the note under Jesuit.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROFESSED)

• Nominal
• Trifling
• suppositious
• ostensible
• professed
• pretended
• formal
• Ostensible
• Avowed
• declared
• manifest
• visible
• nominal
• apparent
• outward

Related words: (words related to PROFESSED)

• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• NOMINALIST
  One of a sect of philosophers in the Middle Ages, who adopted the opinion of Roscelin, that general conceptions, or universals, exist in name only. Reid.
• NOMINAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition. Bp. Pearson. 2. Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference. "Nominal attendance on lectures." Macaulay.
• PROFESSEDLY
  By profession.
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• APPARENTLY
  1. Visibly. Hobbes. 2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak. 3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
• DECLAREMENT
  Declaration.
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• DECLARATOR
  A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.
• VISIBLE
  1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper. Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Virtue made visible in
• NOMINALIZE
  To convert into a noun.
• PROFESS
  or nun), L. professus, p. p. of profiteri to profess; pro before, 1. To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely. "Hear me profess sincerely." Shak.
• PROFESSOR
  1. 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. "Professors
• FORMALIZE
  1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal.
• PROFESSORSHIP
  The office or position of a professor, or public teacher. Walton.
• FORMAL
  1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent;
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
  Having many names or terms.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• COGNOMINAL
  Of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname.
• DISPROFESS
  To renounce the profession or pursuit of. His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. Spenser.