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faculty    音标拼音: [f'ækəlti]
n. 才能,本领;学院,系;全体教学人员

才能,本领;学院,系;全体教学人员

faculty
n 1: one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the
mind [synonym: {faculty}, {mental faculty}, {module}]
2: the body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the
dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the
university" [synonym: {staff}, {faculty}]

Faculty \Fac"ul*ty\, n.; pl. {Faculties}. [F. facult?, L.
facultas, fr. facilis easy (cf. facul easily), fr. fecere to
make. See {Fact}, and cf. {Facility}.]
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.
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But know that in the soul
Are many lesser faculties that serve
Reason as chief. --Milton.
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What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason
! how infinite in faculty ! --Shak.
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2. Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
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He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any
topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous
temperament. --Hawthorne.
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3. Power; prerogative or attribute of office. [R.]
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This Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek. --Shak.
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4. Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence,
to do a particular thing; authority; license;
dispensation.
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The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free
from his promise. --Fuller.
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It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops'
dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they
should think fit to alter among the colleges.
--Evelyn.
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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.
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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.
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{Dean of faculty}. See under {Dean}.

{Faculty of advocates}. (Scot.) See under {Advocate}.

Syn: Talent; gift; endowment; dexterity; expertness;
cleverness; readiness; ability; knack.
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124 Moby Thesaurus words for "faculty":
ability, ableness, absolute power, absolutism, adequacy,
adroitness, appurtenance, aptitude, aptness, authority,
authorization, bent, birthright, bump, caliber, capability,
capableness, capacity, claim, cleverness, competence, competency,
conjugal right, consciousness, constituted authority,
delegated authority, demand, department, dexterity, discipline,
dispensation, divine right, dower, dowry, droit, due, efficacy,
efficiency, endowment, equipment, facility, faculties, fitness,
flair, forte, function, genius, gift, inalienable right,
indirect authority, inherent authority, instinct,
intellectual gifts, intellectuals, interest, jus divinum, knack,
lawful authority, leaning, legal authority, legitimacy, liberty,
long suit, makings, members, metier, natural endowment,
natural gift, natural right, nose, parts, penchant, permission,
personnel, potential, power, powers, predilection, prerogative,
prescription, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, privilege,
proclivity, professorate, professordom, professoriate, professors,
proficiency, propensity, proper claim, property, property right,
qualification, quality, regality, right, rightful authority,
royal prerogative, sanction, school, senses, skill, speciality,
staff, strong flair, strong point, sufficiency, susceptibility,
talent, talents, the goods, the say, the say-so, the stuff, title,
turn, vested authority, vested interest, vested right,
vicarious authority, what it takes, wits

FACULTY, canon law. A license; an authority. For example, the ordinary
having the disposal of all seats in the nave of a church, may grant this
power, which, when it is delegated, is called a faculty, to another.
2. Faculties are of two kinds; first, when the grant is to a man and
his heirs in gross; second, when it is to a person and his heirs, as
appurtenant to a house which he holds in the parish. 1 T. R. 429, 432; 12
Co. R. 106.


FACULTY, Scotch law. Equivalent to ability or power. The term faculty is
more properly applied to a power founded on the consent of the party from
whom it springs, and not founded on property. Kames on Eq. 504.



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