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

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

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

She had a constitutional tendency toward it—indeed, a genius for it; like that which impels one to painting, another to sculpture—this to a learned profession, that to a mechanical trade.

From Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States by Darley, F.O.C.

An ambitious man has a son whom he destines to a learned profession.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various