Profession

Practice of a profession, trade , science, or art. Scientific or artistic teaching. Admission to a religious order . Confession , acknowledgment , or admission of an opinion or belief, made publicly. A person 's principal occupation . Vocation. LIBERAL. That which constitutes the practice of one of the professions pursued in university centers or specialized higher schools, generally involving purely intellectual activity and work , although it does not exclude manual operations ; such as those of the surgeon and those of architects and engineers when drawing up their plans.