1. With pretence or intention to deceive
   "is only professedly poor" 
2. By open declaration
   "Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders"
   - avowedly

See also: professed

• genus Ascaphus
• genus Ascaridia
• genus Ascaris
• genus Asclepias
• genus Ascophyllum
• genus Asimina
• genus Asio
• genus Aspalathus
• genus Asparagus
• genus Aspergillus
• genus Asperula
• genus Asphodeline
• genus Asphodelus
• genus Aspidelaps
• genus Aspidiotus
• genus Aspidistra
• genus Aspidophoroides
• genus Aspis
• genus Asplenium
• genus Astacus
• genus Aster
• genus Astilbe
• genus Astragalus
• genus Astrantia
• genus Astreus