Faculty
Definition of Faculty
Fac´ul`ty n. | 1. | 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. | Special mental endowment; characteristic knack. | | 3. | Power; prerogative or attribute of office. | | 4. | Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation. | | 5. | 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, etc. | | 6. | (Amer. Colleges) 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.Dean of faculty | See under Dean. |
Faculty of advocates | (Scot.) See under Advocate. |
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