Definition of faculty

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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..

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Intelligent :: Intelligent (a.) Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being..
Risible :: Risible (a.) Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh.
Voice :: Voice (n.) The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice..
Ideation :: Ideation (n.) The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.
Capacity :: Capacity (n.) The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling..
Underfaculty :: Underfaculty (n.) An inferior or subordinate faculty.
Tact :: Tact (n.) Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
Bletonism :: Bletonism (n.) The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France..
Reasonable :: Reasonable (n.) Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being..
Talent :: Talent (v. t.) Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30)..
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..
Contrivance :: Contrivance (n.) The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning..
Agency :: Agency (n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
Polyphagy :: Polyphagy (n.) The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.
Ambulatory :: Ambulatory (a.) Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal..
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension..
Dianoetic :: Dianoetic (a.) Pertaining to the discursive faculty, its acts or products..
Felicity :: Felicity (n.) A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking..
Push :: Push (n.) The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push..
Sentient :: Sentient (n.) One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
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