Definition of faculty

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Faculty (n.) Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.

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Apprehensive :: Apprehensive (a.) Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, reptile is an abstract or general name..
Imagination :: Imagination (n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
Conscious :: Conscious (a.) Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension..
Appetitive :: Appetitive (a.) Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty..
Power :: Power (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power..
Percipiency :: Percipiency (n.) The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception..
Bletonism :: Bletonism (n.) The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France..
Faculty :: Faculty (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..
Provoke :: Provoke (v. t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate..
Evolutility :: Evolutility (n.) The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure..
Reason :: Reason (n.) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.
Secretiveness :: Secretiveness (n.) The faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment..
Gift :: Gift (v. t.) To endow with some power or faculty.
Eye :: Eye (n.) The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque..
Digenesis :: Digenesis (n.) The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis..
Polyphagy :: Polyphagy (n.) The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.
Will :: Will (v.) The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects.
Underfaculty :: Underfaculty (n.) An inferior or subordinate faculty.
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