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.
Special mental endowment; characteristic
knack.
Power; prerogative or attribute of
office.
Privilege or permission, granted by favor
or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license;
dispensation.
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, ect.
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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