Faculty
['fæk(ə)ltɪ] or ['fæklti]
Definition
(noun.) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind.
Typed by Felix--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
(n.) Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
(n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
Editor: Ozzie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Power, capability, capacity, ingenuity, competency, endowment, gift, virtue, property, quality, talent, forte.[2]. Skill, skilfulness, ability, ableness, dexterity, adroitness, expertness, address, cleverness, aptitude, aptness, knack, turn, quickness, readiness, facility.[3]. Department, profession, craft.[4]. (Law.) Privilege, license, right.
Typist: Miranda
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CAPABILITY]
Editor: Timmy
Definition
n. facility or power to act: any particular ability or aptitude: an original power of the mind: any physical capability or function: personal quality or endowment: right authority or privilege to act: license: a department of learning at a university or the professors constituting it: the members of a profession: executive ability.—adj. Fac′ultātive optional: of or pertaining to a faculty.—Court of Faculties a court established by Henry VIII. whereby authority is given to the Archbishop of Canterbury to grant dispensations and faculties.
Editor: Pierre
Examples
- Not to mention that women and children are most subject to pity, as being most guided by that faculty. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This consolation principally consists in their invention of the words: faculty and occult quality. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Reason ceases to be a remote and ideal faculty, and signifies all the resources by which activity is made fruitful in meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The reason is (as you know) the only faculty to which education should be addressed. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- This faculty, or instinct, was now rouzed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Would you say that knowledge is a faculty, or in what class would you place it? Plato. The Republic.
- I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She had an amazing instinctive critical faculty, and was a pure anarchist, a pure aristocrat at once. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Somewhat allied to this curious faculty is another no less remarkable, and that is, the ability to point out instantly an error in a mass of reported experimental results. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And is opinion also a faculty? Plato. The Republic.
- This sentiment, then, as it is entirely unreasonable, must proceed from some other faculty than the understanding. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- For what is the memory but a faculty, by which we raise up the images of past perceptions? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- As yet I had not thought; I had only listened, watched, dreaded; now I regained the faculty of reflection. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He brought the invaluable faculty, called common sense, to bear on the Colonel's letter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The best faculties of man are employed for futurity: speaking is better than acting, writing is better than speaking. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I've got my faculties as if I was in my prime, but names wear out, by Jove! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I do not know that my mental faculties are impaired. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Faculties less delicately balanced, constitutions less tenderly organised, must have suffered under such an ordeal as this. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In attempting to prove that the soul has three separate faculties, Plato takes occasion to discuss what makes difference of faculties. Plato. The Republic.
- His faculties seemed tranced, and he was still groping for the word to break the spell. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I believe that the strange incidents connected with it will afford a view of nature, which may enlarge your faculties and understanding. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Emphasis is placed upon the devising, adapting, constructing faculties. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Sight and hearing, for example, I should call faculties. Plato. The Republic.
- The native faculties of his mind qualified him to penetrate into every science: and his unremitted diligence left no field of knowledge unexplored. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It's three o'clock in the morning, and I've got all my faculties as well as ever I had in my life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I will begin by placing faculties in a class by themselves: they are powers in us, and in all other things, by which we do as we do. Plato. The Republic.
- I regarded it as a brief holiday, permitted for once to work-weary faculties, rather than as an adventure of life and death. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Accustomed as I was to Holmes's curious faculties, this sudden intrusion into my most intimate thoughts was utterly inexplicable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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