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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learned profession

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 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

We are set to think about and expound religion and if we give that up we give up our place in a learned profession.

From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch

The prayer-carpet, which resembles a wide hearth-rug, is seldom used as a covering for the saddle except when the rider is a person of the learned profession.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous