A faculty refers to any of your mental or physical abilities. If you lose your faculties, you are powerless. The faculty of a school is comprised of the people who work there. Lose them, and you have a different kind of problem.
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;
Noun
one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
Noun
the body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"
n.
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.
n.
Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
n.
Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
n.
Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence,
to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
n.
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.
n.
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.
Faculty
But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties that serve Reason as chief.
What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty !2.
He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament.3.
This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek.4.
The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise.
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.5.
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;
Usage Examples
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
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Other Usage ExamplesProductivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.
In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
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