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- Professor - n. - One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.
- Professor - n. - One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.
- Professorial - a. - Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest.
- Professorialism - n. - The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
- Professoriat - n. - See Professoriate.
- Professoriate - n. - The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.
- Professoriate - n. - A professorship.
- Professorship - n. - The office or position of a professor, or public teacher.
- Professory - a. - Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial.
- Moonshee - n. - A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language.
- Thermoscope - n. - An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.
- Canonist - n. - A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.
- Leech - n. - A physician or surgeon; a professor of the art of healing.
- Jurisconsult - n. - A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist.
- Professor - n. - One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.
- Gunter's scale - - A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant.
- Swordsman - n. - One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
- Theologian - n. - A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.
- Gyroscope - n. - A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope.
- Leucoscope - n. - An instrument, devised by Professor Helmholtz, for testing the color perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights, as to their constituent colors or their relative whiteness.
- Kaleidophone - - An instrument invented by Professor Wheatstone, consisting of a reflecting knob at the end of a vibrating rod or thin plate, for making visible, in the motion of a point of light reflected from the knob, the paths or curves corresponding with the musical notes produced by the vibrations.
- Ramist - n. - A follower of Pierre Rame, better known as Ramus, a celebrated French scholar, who was professor of rhetoric and philosophy at Paris in the reign of Henry II., and opposed the Aristotelians.
- Illuminati - v. t. - Members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years.