Definitions for the word "faculty" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
(pl. -ies) 1 aptitude for a particular activity. 2 inherent mental or physical power. 3 a group of related university departments. B us teaching staff of a university or college. 4 authorization, esp. By a church authority. [latin: related to *facile]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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