单词 | professed |
释义 | professed /preuh fest"/, adj. 1. avowed; acknowledged. 2. professing to be qualified; professional, rather than amateur. 3. having taken the vows of, or been received into, a religious order. 4. alleged; pretended. [1300-50; ME (in religious sense) < ML profess(us) (special use of L professus, ptp. of profiteri to declare publicly, equiv. to pro- PRO-1 + -fet-, comb. form of fateri to acknowledge + -tus ptp. suffix, with tt > ss) + -ED2] |
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