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one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.

Power; prerogative or attribute of office.

Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.

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.

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.

Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.

Power; prerogative or attribute of office.

Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.

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.

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.

The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in an educational institution.

Having power to act; collegiate professors.

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.

Power of the mind; ability; professors of a college; members of a profession.

Any special power of mind or body.

Any original power of mind in which it is active; the power of doing anything or of performing any action, natural, vital, or animal; the skill derived from practice, or practice aided by nature; special power; privilege; a right or power granted to a person; the individuals constituting a learned profession, or a branch of one, taken collectively the members of a profession; in colleges, the masters and professors of the several departments of a university, one of the departments of a university. The Faculty of Advocates, in Scotland, an incorporated body of barristers, their president being styled Dean of the Faculty.

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.

The power of executing any function or act. The collection of the intellectual faculties constitutes the understanding. We say, also, vital faculties for vital properties, &c. Faculty likewise means the whole body of the medical profession, and, also, a body of medical or other professors.

A normal power or function, especially a mental one.

A collective term for the teachers in a university or in any department of a university; in popular language, the members of a profession.

The inherent quality or power of performing a certain physiological act; in the pl., faculties, the senses together with the mental attributes.

n. [Latin] Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; mental power or capacity; intellectual endowment or gift;—privilege or permission; license;—a body of men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college—philosophy, law, medicine, or theology; especially, the members of a profession or calling;—the professors and tutors in a college.

The power of doing any thing, ability; powers of the mind, imagination, reason, memory; a knack, dexterity; power, authority; privilege, right to do any thing; Faculty, in an university, denotes the masters and professors of the several sciences.