Definitions
1.verbTo administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)
2.verbTo declare oneself (to be something).
3.verbTo declare; to assert, affirm.
4.verbTo make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
5.verbTo declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
6.verbTo work as a professor of; to teach.
7.verbTo claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).