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Definition of Faculty

Faculty 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. Related Definitions: Ability, Act, Activity, An, And, Any, Are, As, At, Attribute, Authority, Body, By, Capacity, Characteristic, Classes, College, Cultivated, Department, Dispensation, Do, Endowment, Especially, Faculties, Faculty, Favor, Feeling, For, Formerly, Four, Function, Gift, Government, Granted, Had, In, Inborn, Indulgence, Instruction, Intellectual, Intrusted, Is, Itself, Knack, Knowledge, Law, Leading, Legal, License, Medical, Medicine, Men, Mental, Mind, Natural, Of, Office, One, Or, Original, Particular, Perform, Permission, Person, Philosophy, Power, Prerogative, Present, President, Privilege, Profession, Psychical, Right, Soul, Special, Specific, Studied, Teaching, The, Theology, They, Thing, To, University, Volition, Was, Well-Known, Whether, Which, Whom

Faculty Quotations I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. William F. Buckley, Jr. As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. Mark Twain Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Samuel Butler A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. John Ciardi

Faculty Translations faculty in Danish is fakultet faculty in Dutch is faculteit faculty in Norwegian is evne, fakultet faculty in Portuguese is faculdade

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