Thesaurus: faculty

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1. n. 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.
2. n. Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
3. n. Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
4. n. Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
5. 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.
6. n. 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.
7. n. one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
8. n. the body of teachers and administrators at a school
9. The body of person to whom are intrusted the government andinstruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments;the president, professors, and tutors in a college. Dean of faculty.See under Dean.-- Faculty of advocates. (Scot.) See under Advocate.
10. n:100 n. one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind