faculties 音标拼音: [f'ækəltiz]
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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1913 Webster ]
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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