Profess
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) To declare friendship.
(2): ( v. t.) To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.
(3): ( v. t.) To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.
(4): ( v. t.) To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.
(5): ( v. i.) To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.
King James Dictionary [2]
Profess', L. professus, profiteor pro and fateor.
1. To make open declaration of to avow or acknowledge.
Let no man who professes himself a christian, keep so heathenish a family as not to see God by daily worshipped in it.
They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him. Titus 1
2. To declare in strong terms.
Then will I profess to them, I never knew you. Matthew 7
3. To make a show of any sentiments by loud declaration.
To your professing bosoms I commit him.
4. To declare publicly one's skill in any art or science, for inviting employment as, to profess one's self a physician he professes surgery.
Profess', To declare friendship. Not in use.
