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faculties 音标拼音: [f'ækəltiz] 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. [ 1913 Webster] But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties that serve Reason as chief. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Special mental endowment; characteristic knack. [ 1913 Webster] He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. -- Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Power; prerogative or attribute of office. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation. [ 1913 Webster] The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] { Dean of faculty}. See under { Dean}. { Faculty of advocates}. ( Scot.) See under { Advocate}. Syn: Talent; gift; endowment; dexterity; expertness; cleverness; readiness; ability; knack. [ 1913 Webster] |
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