Meaning of faculty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
   Canada, Philippines, US
2. A division of a university.
3. Any of the distinct branches of teaching at a college or university, or the body of teachers in a particular subject.
4. An inherent power or ability: the faculty of speech.
5. An ability, power, or skill.
6. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The teachers and instructors of a school or college, or of one of its divisions, especially those considered permanent, full-time employees.
7. An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
8. Authorization granted by authority; conferred power.
9. A licence to make alterations to a church.
   Church-of-England
10. Archaic An occupation; a trade.
    Archaic
11. The members of a profession.
12. one of the inherent powers of the mind or body, such as reason, memory, sight, or hearing
13. any ability or power, whether acquired or inherent
14. a conferred power or right
15. (Education) a. a department within a university or college devoted to a particular branch of knowledge
16. (Education) all members of a learned profession

Equivalents

Examples

“She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.”

“He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.”

“What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty!”

“If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule […]”

“The preſent Argument is the moſt abſtracted that ever I engaged in, it ſtrains my Faculties to their higheſt Stretch; and I deſire the Reader to attend with utmoſt perpenſity; For, I now proceed to unravel this knotty Point.”

“It was some time before Johnstone recovered the full use of his faculties; his eyes unclosed but to stare fixedly upon the bank, which, however, was now unoccupied.”

“I have used the notion of games so far as if it were familiar to most people. I think this is justified as everyone knows how to play some games. Accordingly, games serve admirably as models for the clarification of other, less well-understood, social-psychological phenomena. Yet the ability to follow rules, play games, and construct new games is a faculty not equally shared by all persons.”

“Unless he has bi-ritual faculties, the Latin priest must baptize and confirm the Eastern rite person, whether infant or adult, according to the liturgical books of the Latin church ( canon 846 , §2 ).”

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