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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. Dean of faculty. See under Dean. -- Faculty of advocates. See

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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. Dean of faculty. See under Dean. -- Faculty of advocates. See under Advocate. Syn. -- Talent; gift; endowment; dexterity; expertness; cleverness; readiness; ability; knack. (more info) facilis easy , fr. fecere to make. See Fact, and 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. But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties that serve Reason as chief. Milton. What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! Shak. 2. Special mental endowment; characteristic knack. He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. Hawthorne. 3. Power; prerogative or attribute of office. This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek. Shak. 4. Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation. The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise. Fuller. 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. 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 , to whom was granted the right of teaching in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.

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  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • SKILLFUL
    1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
  • VOLUMENOMETRY
    The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.
  • CHARACTER
    1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
  • VOLUMENOMETER
    An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
  • QUALIFICATION
    1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
  • TALENT
    tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
  • PRESENT
    one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
  • ABILITY
    The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then
  • POWERFUL
    Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
  • PRESENTIVE
    Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
  • POWERABLE
    1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
  • PRESENTANEOUS
    Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
  • GIFTEDNESS
    The state of being gifted. Echard.
  • DEXTERITY
    1. Right-handedness. 2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. In youth quick bearing and dexterity. Shak. 3. Readiness in the use or control of the
  • TONNAGE
    1. The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship. 2. The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. . A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000
  • INTELLECTUALIST
    1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
  • PRESENTLY
    1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
  • SKILLED
    Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
  • INTELLECT
    The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power
  • ADORABILITY
    Adorableness.
  • AMENABILITY
    The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • SUITABILITY
    The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
  • EQUABILITY
    The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.
  • DEFLAGRABILITY
    The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.
  • COMMENSURABILITY
    The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
  • IMMEABILITY
    Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot.
  • INEVITABILITY
    Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.
  • EFFUMABILITY
    The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • TAMABILITY
    The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
  • INSOCIABILITY
    The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. Bp. Warburton.
  • OPPOSABILITY
    The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
  • CANDLE POWER
    Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.

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