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

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

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

It was confidently believed that Tom Robinson would cut the shop, so far as any active management of it was concerned, and enter either a gallant or a learned profession.

From A Houseful of Girls by Sarah Tytler

To support so large a family must have taxed the energies of the father to the utmost, even though no one of them was destined for a learned profession.

From The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer