One's general mental capacity or ability to reason
“It is curious to me how comfortably I endure the sense of gradually losing my faculties and of becoming less intelligent.”
Innate abilities of reasoning and understanding
The ability to do something successfully or efficiently
“Her moods are many, and she has a faculty for portraying deep emotions with an airy touch.”
Plural for a department or group in an educational institution concerned with a division of knowledge
“So does the absence of any reference to the via moderna within the faculty of arts at this time indicate that Wittenberg was still committed to the via antiqua?”
Plural for the teachers or educators (collectively) in an educational institution
“The faculty agreed on a change to the syllabus.”
Plural for a license or authorization from a Church authority
“The canon lists several conditions which must be met for parish priests to exercise validly the faculty to confirm adults they baptize or receive into full communion.”
Plural for a natural or intuitive way of acting or thinking
Plural for an attribute, quality, or characteristic of something
Plural for the function assumed or part played by a person or thing in a particular situation
Plural for a college or institution of learning
Plural for a paid position of regular employment
Plural for the faculty or state of being able to see
Plural for a group of people in attendance on a monarch or other person of high rank
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