See Also: Faculty(medicine)
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FACULTY, canon law(law)
nursing faculty practice(medicine)

faculty (iou)



faculty noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French faculte from Latin facultas, from facilis FACILE: see -TY1.]
I.
An ability, aptitude, or competence for a particular kind of action (sometimes natural as opp. to acquired). Formerly also, ability in general. LME.
D. H. Lawrence He had the faculty of making order out of confusion.
b. A personal quality; disposition. L15-E17.
Means, resources; possessions, property. Now rare exc. in faculty theory below. LME.
A. Young The prices..are beyond their faculties.
A power or capacity of a thing; an active property. L15-E18.
An inherent power or property of the body or an organ; a physical capability. Freq. in pl. L15.
S. Sassoon One man had lost that necessary faculty..his eyesight.
An inherent power or property of the mind, as reason, memory, etc.; a mental capability. Freq. in pl. L16.
H. James His facultieshis imagination, his intelligence, his affections, his senses.
II. gen. A branch of knowledge. LME-M18.
A branch of learning (orig. esp. theology, law, medicine, or arts) taught and studied at a university or (now) polytechnic or college; a department of a university etc. teaching a specific branch of learning; the staff and students of such a department; (chiefly N. Amer.) the teaching staff of a university or college. LME.
Dean of Faculty: see DEAN noun1 6.
M. Arnold At Bonn there is a Protestant faculty of theology.
An art, a trade, an occupation, a profession. arch. LME.
R. Neve A..Soap-boyler..and another Gentleman of the same Faculty.
The members of a profession regarded as one body; spec. (arch.) the medical profession. E16.
Faculty of Advocates: see ADVOCATE noun 1.
T. Hood Bacon..was once in vogue amongst the Faculty for weak digestions.
III.
The power, freedom, or right of doing something, given by law or by a superior. E16.
M. Arnold Something..anti-social which the State had the faculty to judge and the duty to suppress.
b. An authorization, a licence; esp. (Ecclesiastical) a dispensation to perform an action or hold a position otherwise illegal. M16.
Book of Common Prayer None shall be..a Deacon, except he be Twenty-three year of age, unless he have a Faculty.
Comb.: faculty psychology: in which certain mental faculties are seen as accountable for the phenomena of mind; faculty theory: that each person should contribute to public taxation according to his or her ability.
facultied adjective accredited by a faculty; endowed with a faculty: M19.