Definition of faculty

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Faculty (n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation..

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Reason :: Reason (n.) Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice..
Poesy :: Poesy (n.) The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy..
Passion :: Passion (n.) The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath
Reasonable :: Reasonable (n.) Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being..
Describe :: Describe (v. i.) To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty..
Bird-witted :: Bird-witted (a.) Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention.
Appetitive :: Appetitive (a.) Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty..
Causality :: Causality (n.) The faculty of tracing effects to their causes.
Reason :: Reason (n.) The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive o
Underfaculty :: Underfaculty (n.) An inferior or subordinate faculty.
Function :: Function (n.) The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind..
Power :: Power (n.) The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
Conspectuity :: Conspectuity (n.) The faculty of seeing; sight; eye.
Judicative :: "Judicative (a.) Having power to judge; judicial; as, the judicative faculty..
Wit :: Wit (v.) A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like..
Educate :: Educate (v. t.) To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.,; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste..
Sight :: Sight (v. t.) The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes..
Unwilled :: Unwilled (a.) Deprived of the faculty of will or volition.
Vision :: Vision (v.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve..
Strong :: Strong (superl.) Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination..
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