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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