learned profession

American  

noun

1. any of the three vocations of theology, law, and medicine, commonly held to require highly advanced learning.

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Example Sentences

The Nevada state legislature last week became the first in the nation to declare traditional Chinese medicine "a learned profession."

From Time Magazine Archive

He believes that lawyers and educators interested in training lawyers must reconstruct legal education so as to achieve a learned profession and the common good.

From Time Magazine Archive

A. M. A.'s "legal talent" made it clear that they would take the tack that medicine is a learned profession, not a trade, and thus does not fall within the scope of the Sherman Act.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was fond, too, of society, and was also throughout his life addicted to frivolities not altogether consistent with advancement in a learned profession, or with the positions of dignity which he successively occupied.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

Thus during the Middle Ages the first schools were called into being by the need of professional training for ecclesiastics, the first learned profession, and a calling whose importance seemed to demand such training.

From The Children: Some Educational Problems by Darroch, Alexander