Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Professedly; by profession.
Wiktionary
- adv. Professedly; by profession.
- adv. As an expert; with the competence one would expect from a professional; in the capacity of an expert.
Etymologies
- Latin ex professo ("by profession"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Byzantinus simply surrenders their authority to the opponents of our doctrine concerning the knowledge of Christ; Petavius represents it as partly undecided; but the early Fathers may be excused from error, because they wrote mostly against the Arian heresy, so that they endeavoured to establish Christ's Divinity by removing all ignorance from His Divine nature, while they did not care to enter upon an ex professo investigation of the knowledge possessed by His human nature.”
“The canons regular ex professo united Holy orders with religious life, and being attached to a church, devoted themselves to promoting the dignity of Divine worship.”
“This is treated ex professo in the article on CAUSE (q. v.).”
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