Meanings of learned profession in English

On one thing I was determined: I should follow a learned profession.

I am a Danton- agentleman-amemberof the learned profession of medicine and not so bad-looking.

Neither a priest nor a deacon could sit in Parliament, or enter any other learned profession.

Of this worthy gentleman I have, as a member of the learned profession, an exalted opinion.

What other so-called learned profession is equally fortunate?

Have you ever thought of going further-orseeking a course of college or even a learned profession?

And then it was clear that this man had no appreciation of the dignity of a learned profession.

He found the teaching all towards the classics, making for Oxford or Cambridge, and afterwards for a learned profession.

I myself would like to see dressmaking regarded not merely as a learned profession, but as a fine art.

His steady, onward march over the rough places and up the hill in his learned profession abundantly attest his greatness.

His friendship with them dated from school-days, and it had survived even the entrance of Liversage into a learned profession.

A learned profession might be sneeringly tolerated; but woe to him who spoke of agriculture, or commerce, or the mechanic arts!

Could it be possible, I asked myself, that a senior member of a learned profession would have uttered such arrogant and insensitive words?

In fact, a scientific and technical education in some branch of industry has already won its way to the rank of a learned profession.

He had distinguished himself at the University; but he had no patrimony, nor those powers of perseverance which success in any learned profession requires.

Nicias is, like Simon, of a learned profession; and the dignity with which he wears the doctoral fur, renders his absurdities infinitely more grotesque.