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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /fækʊltiː/
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Noun

The scholarly staff at colleges or university|universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.
A division of a university (e.g. a Faculty of Science or Faculty of Medicine).
An ability, skill, or power.
:He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.

Translations

German: Fakultät

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Faculty \Fac"ul*ty\, n.; pl. Faculties. [F. facult?, L.
facultas, fr. facilis easy (cf. facul easily), fr. fecere to
make. See Fact, and cf. Facility.]
1. Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated;
capacity for any natural function; especially, an original
mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes
of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity
for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as
knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or
gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.
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But know that in the soul
Are many lesser faculties that serve
Reason as chief. --Milton.
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What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason
! how infinite in faculty ! --Shak.
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2. Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
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He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any
topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous
temperament. --Hawthorne.
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3. Power; prerogative or attribute of office. [R.]
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This Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek. --Shak.
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4. Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence,
to do a particular thing; authority; license;
dispensation.
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The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free
from his promise. --Fuller.
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It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops'
dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they
should think fit to alter among the colleges.
--Evelyn.
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5. A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is
granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four
departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law,
Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of
teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in
which they had studied; at present, the members of a
profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal
faculty, etc.
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6. (Amer. Colleges) The body of person to whom are intrusted
the government and instruction of a college or university,
or of one of its departments; the president, professors,
and tutors in a college.
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Dean of faculty. See under Dean.

Faculty of advocates. (Scot.) See under Advocate.

Syn: Talent; gift; endowment; dexterity; expertness;
cleverness; readiness; ability; knack.
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WordNet faculty
n 1: one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the
mind [syn: mental faculty, module]
2: the body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the
dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the
university" [syn: staff]

Moby Dictionary
ability , ableness , absolute power , absolutism , adequacy ,
adroitness , appurtenance , aptitude , aptness , authority ,
authorization , bent , birthright , bump , caliber , capability ,
capableness , capacity , claim , cleverness , competence , competency ,
conjugal right , consciousness , constituted authority ,
delegated authority , demand , department , dexterity , discipline ,
dispensation , divine right , dower , dowry , droit , due , efficacy ,
efficiency , endowment , equipment , facility , faculties , fitness ,
flair , forte , function , genius , gift , inalienable right ,
indirect authority , inherent authority , instinct ,
intellectual gifts , intellectuals , interest , jus divinum , knack ,
lawful authority , leaning , legal authority , legitimacy , liberty ,
long suit , makings , members , metier , natural endowment ,
natural gift , natural right , nose , parts , penchant , permission ,
personnel , potential , power , powers , predilection , prerogative ,
prescription , presumptive right , pretense , pretension , privilege ,
proclivity , professorate , professordom , professoriate , professors ,
proficiency , propensity , proper claim , property , property right ,
qualification , quality , regality , right , rightful authority ,
royal prerogative , sanction , school , senses , skill , speciality ,
staff , strong flair , strong point , sufficiency , susceptibility ,
talent , talents , the goods , the say , the say-so , the stuff , title ,
turn , vested authority , vested interest , vested right ,
vicarious authority , what it takes , wits

FACULTY, canon law. A license; an authority. For example, the ordinary having the disposal of all seats in the nave of a church, may grant this power, which, when it is delegated, is called a faculty, to another. 2. Faculties are of two kinds; first, when the grant is to a man and his heirs in gross; second, when it is to a person and his heirs, as appurtenant to a house which he holds in the parish. 1 T. R. 429, 432; 12 Co. R. 106.

FACULTY, Scotch law. Equivalent to ability or power. The term faculty is more properly applied to a power founded on the consent of the party from whom it springs, and not founded on property. Kames on Eq. 504.