With clause, esp. that-clause, as complement. To assert, maintain to (a person) (that he or she has done something, or is something); to charge…

transitive. To lay claim to or profess to have (a quality, state, etc.). Now only: to lay false claim to, affect, feign, or put on (a quality…

transitive. With infinitive or clause as object. To claim, pretend, or profess. Also reflexive or intransitive as to presume (upon) oneself. Obsolete.

transitive. To make profession of, to lay claim to (often with implication of insincerity); to make protestation of (some quality or feeling)…

With infinitive: To assert a claim, to claim ability, to do something.

transitive. To allege, pretend, or profess, esp. falsely.

To assert, maintain; to pretend; to claim.

intransitive. To appear, purport, or claim to be or have (what is specified). Obsolete.

transitive. To take upon oneself (to do something); to profess. Obsolete.

transitive. To claim to have proved, or to try to prove (something to be true); to make to appear, to represent, pretend. With clause as object…

transitive. Esp. of a document, picture, or object: (originally, without implied doubt as to the validity of the claim) to seem; (in later use) to…

transitive. Chiefly colloquial and regional. To profess or claim to do something; = purport, v. 1b.