v.
1.practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
2.confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
3.admit, make a clean breast of
4.state freely
5.receive into a religious order or congregation
6.take vows, as in religious order
7.state insincerely
Idiom of the Day
out of character
unlike one's usual character, not appropriate for one's character
Arguing with the sales clerk was out of character for my father. He never argues about such things.