FACULTY
\fˈakə͡ltˌi], \fˈakəltˌi], \f_ˈa_k_əl_t_ˌi]\
Definitions of FACULTY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
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Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
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Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
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Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
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Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in an educational institution.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Having power to act; collegiate professors.
By William R. Warner
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Facility or power to act; an original power of the mind; personal quality or endowment; right, authority, or privilege to act; license; a body of men to whom any privilege is granted; the professors constituting a department in a university; the members of a profession.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The power of executing any function or act. The collection of the intellectual faculties constitutes the understanding. We say, also, vital faculties for vital properties, &c. Faculty likewise means the whole body of the medical profession, and, also, a body of medical or other professors.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A collective term for the teachers in a university or in any department of a university; in popular language, the members of a profession.
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The inherent quality or power of performing a certain physiological act; in the pl., faculties, the senses together with the mental attributes.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; mental power or capacity; intellectual endowment or gift;—privilege or permission; license;—a body of men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college—philosophy, law, medicine, or theology; especially, the members of a profession or calling;—the professors and tutors in a college.
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The power of doing any thing, ability; powers of the mind, imagination, reason, memory; a knack, dexterity; power, authority; privilege, right to do any thing; Faculty, in an university, denotes the masters and professors of the several sciences.
By Thomas Sheridan
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