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[professur] (c.1275)
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[professur] (c.1275)

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professeur,  professor,  professour,  proffessur  
  FEW:  professio 9,429v Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  professeur 10,426b TL: professor 7m,1895 DEAF:  professïon (professor)  DMF:  professeur  TLF:  professeur  OED:  professor n.  MED:  professour n.  DMLBS:  professor 2491b

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1one who professes, declares allegiance: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  De menurs dustre e fundur, E de poverté leau professeur, De penance ensaumple[r], De verité enparler  S Fran ANTS 6182
♦monasticeccl.a member of a religious order, one who has made a profession: 
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Ainz sont les freres des freitours, Qui de nuyt portont les labours Au moustier pour chanter et lire, Ainz sont du cloistre professours  GOWER Mirour 21659
2acad.occupationteacher, professor at a university: 
( 1298 )  Sire Johan de Vercelles professor en ley escripte  Foedera1 i 892
( 1346 )  nostre cher clerc mestre Andreu de Offord professeur de leis  Foedera1 iii 81

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See also:

nientprofesse  professer  profession 
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