FACULTY

n. Fa2k'u3l-ti2. Gr., Swapis (1st def.). Lat.,/acw/- tas (from facere, to do). Fr., faculte. Ger., Vermogen (1st def.), Fdhigkeit (1st def.), Facultat. I. The inherent quality or power of performing a certain physiological act; in the pi., faculties, the senses together with the mental attributes. 2. A collective term for the teachers in a university or in any department of a university; in popular language, the members of a profe ion. Affective faculties. Capacity for emotional activities, [a. 29.] Germinative f. Fr., faculte germinative. The intrinsic power of a germ to develop into a plant. [B, 121 (o, 24).] [s. 797]