Results for faculty
Definitions of faculty:
part of speech: noun
The power of doing anything; a power or capacity of the mind; ability; skill derived from practice; the professors of a department in a university; an ecclesiastical dispensation; the faculty, the medical profession; faculty of advocates, in Scot., the members of the bar, taken collectively.
part of speech: noun
Facility or power to act; an original power of the mind; personal quality or endowment; right, authority, or privilege to act; license; a body of men to whom any privilege is granted; the professors constituting a department in a university; the members of a profession.
Usage examples for faculty:
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In trying to account to myself for my own sensations, I could only put it that one felt in the man a complete absence of the sympathetic faculty
"The Woman in Black", Edmund Clerihew Bentley -
Pride was the one developed faculty of Evan's nature.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith