| inglese > inglese | |
| profess | |
| 1. v. To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.) |  |
| 2. v. (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something). |  |
| 3. v. To declare; to assert, affirm. |  |
| 4. v. To make a claim (to be something), to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity. |  |
| 5. v. To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.). |  |
| 6. v. To work as a professor of; to teach. |  |
| 7. v. (transitive, now rare) To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter). |  |