faculencet (fakulens)

[L. facula, a torch, + E. -ence.] Brightne ; clearne . Bailey, 1727. = facultative (fak'ul-ta-tiv), a. [= F. facultatif Sp. Pg. facultativo, The chief point was the introduction of the referendum, by which laws made by the [Swi ] cantonal legislature may ( facultative referendum) or must (obligatory referendum) be submitted to the people for their approval. Encyc. Brit ., XXII. 796. The Facultative Actions are those which, although ultimately dependent on the energies of the organs, are yet neither inevitably nor uniformly produced when the organs are stimulated, but, owing to the play of forces at work, take sometimes one i ue and sometimes another. G. H. Lewes, Probs, of Life and Mind, Int., I. ii. § 30. Facultative hypermetropia. See hypermetropia.Facultative parasite, an organism, usually a fungus, which is normally in all stages saprophytic, but which can grow during the whole or part of its development as a parasite. Facultative saprophyte, an organism, usually a fungus, which is normally in all stages parasitic, but which can grow during part of its development as a saprophyte. facultatively (fak'ul-ta-tiv-li), adv. In a facultative manner. Certain facultatively parasitic and facultatively endophytic species of Moulds. De Bary, Fungi (trans.), p. 360. faculty (fak'ul-ti), n.; pl. faculties (-tiz). [ faculte , power, property, OF. faculte , F. To crave your favour with a begging knee, Were to distrust the writer's faculty . in the disposition of a heritable subject to burden the disponee with a payment. - Moral faculty. See moral sense, under moral . - Theory of faculties, in psychol ., the doctrine that there is a close correspondence between the powers of the mind (as the so-called faculties of sen- sation, memory, etc.) and its internal constitution. The meaning of the phrase is quite vague. It merely expre es the incautious tendency to reason from the logical analysis of mental phenomena to the physiology of the soul which the older psychologists are accused of by Herbar tian and other modern psychologists. =Syn. 1. Aptitude , Capacity , etc. (see genius ); aptne , capability, forte, turn, expert- ne , addre , facility. facundt (fa-kund'), a. [ME. facound , fa- conde = Sp. Pg. facundo = It. facondo , fa- cundus , that speaks with ease, eloquent, far i , speak: see fable .] Ready of speech; eloquent; fluent. Also facundious . With facound voys seyde Holde your tonges. How carele ly do you behave yourself When you should call all your best faculties To counsel in you! Fletcher and Rowley , Maid in the Mill, iv. 1. These powers of the mind, viz., of perceiving and of pre- ferring, are usually called.. faculties of the mind. Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxi. 6. Oh! many are the Poets that are sown By nature; Men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine, 2. A power or privilege conferred; bestowed capacity for the performance of any act or function; ability or authority acquired in any way. In Roman Catholic ecclesiastical law a faculty is specifically an authorization by a superior conferring cer- tain ecclesiastical rights upon a subordinate. The most important faculties are those conferred by the pope upon bishops. [Archaic except in the latter use.] This Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek. quence, facundus , eloquent.] Readine of cundus , speech; eloquence. Facunde or fayrne e of spec he, [L.] facundia, eloquen- Prompt . Parv., p. 145. IMG:content-1009.png:[blocks in formation] facundityt (fa-kun'di-ti), n. [ facun- dita (t-) s , Upon my facundity , an elegant construction by the fool, So, I am cedunt arm a togæ. Brome , Queen and Concubine (1659). fad1 (fad), n . [Of E. dial. origin. There is no- thing to connect this word with the AS. fa- dian , ge - fadian , set in order, arrange, ge - fæd , a., orderly, ge - fæd , n., order, decorum.] 1. A trivial fancy adopted and pursued for a time with irrational zeal; a matter of no importance, or an important matter imperfectly under- stood, taken up, and urged with more zeal than sense; a whim; a crotchet; a temporary Mrs. H. B. Stowe , Minister's Wooing, i. Above all things, he [Theodore Winthrop] had what we Yankees call faculty - the knack of doing everything. G. W. Curtis, Int. to Cecil Dreeme, p. 12. 5. In colonial New England, a trade or profes- sion. Ma . Prov . Laws .-6. In the law of di- vorce (commonly in the plural), the pecuniary ability of the husband, in view of both his prop- erty and his capacity to earn money, with refer- ence to which the amount of the wife's alimony is fixed. Acquisitive, appetitive, conservative, elaborative, etc., faculty. De the adjectiuser court of Faculties, in the Ch . of Eng . , an ecclesiastical court originally established in 1534 by Henry VIII. in con- nection with the archbishopric of Canterbury, and em- powered to grant faculties, dispensations, etc. The chief officer is called the master of the faculties , and his duties are now confined almost entirely to granting "It is your favourite fad to draw plans." " Fad to draw plans! Do you think I only care about my fellow-creatures' houses in that childish way?" vapid, insipid, G. fade , insipid), fade , pale, weak, witle , F. fade , insipid, tastele , dull, ef. F. fat , foppish, a fop, Pr . fatz , fem. fad a , fool- ish, It. fado , insipid, dull, flat, heavy ( d , tu- , tv- ), fatuus , foolish, silly, insipid, taste- le : see fatuous . In the sense of insipid,' which does not occur in ME., fade is taken from and sometimes pronounced like mod. F. fade .] 14. Pale; wan; faded. Thi faire he we is al fade for thi moc he sore. William of Palerne , 1. 891. Of proud wymmen wuld y telle, But they are so wrothe and felle, Bot evermo be ded and dri, And falow and fade . fadel (fad), v .; pret. and pp. faded , ppr. fading . [ faden , very rarely vaden , fader , become or make pale or weak, fade; fade , pale, weak: see fadel , a.] I. in trans . 1. To be- come pale or wan; lose freshne , color, bright- ne , or distinctne ; tend from a stronger or brighter color to a more faint shade of the same color, or from visiblene to invisibility; be- come weak in hue or tint or in outline; have the distinctive or characteristic features disappear gradually; grow dim or indistinct to the sight. I byd in my bly yng zhe aungels gyf lyghte To the erthe, for it faded when the fendes fell. York Plays , p. 6. How doth the colour vade of those vermilion dyes Which Nature's self did make, and self-engrained the same. Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 554). Gazed on them with a fading smile About his lips, and eyes that ever grew More troubled still. Thus pleasures fade away; Youth, talents, beauty, thus decay, And leave us dark, forlorn, and gray. The flower ripens in its place, Ripens, and fades , and falls. Tennyson, Lotos-Eaters (Choric Song). The belief in miracles has in most cases not been rea- Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 370. fad1 (fad), v . i.; pret. and pp. fadded , ppr. fadsoned down, but has simply faded away. ding . [ fad , n.] To be busy with trifles. fad2 (fad), n. [E. dial.] 1. A bundle of straw. -2. A colored ball. fadaise (fa-dāz'), n. [F., fade , insipid: see fade1.] An insipid or trifling thought or ex- pre ion; a commonplace. He [Jeffrey] has a particular contempt, in which I most heartily concur with him, for the fadaises of blue-stock- ing literature. Macaulay, Life and Letters, I. 143. faddish (fad'ish), a. [ fad1 + -ish1.] Dis- posed to indulge in fads or whims. [Rare.] faddishne (fad'ish-nes), n. A disposition to fads or whims. [Rare.] A very clever man, who is laughing in his sleeve at the scientific and artistic faddishne he reproduces. The Academy , March 24, 1888, p. 202. [ fad1 + -ist .] One who one wholly given up to a faddist (fad'ist), n. has a fad or whims; fad. [Rare.] Those political faddists who, while they are undoubted- ly actuated themselves by the highest motives of human- ity and popular good, play daily into the hands of either the purely ambitious or the utterly unscrupulous cla of modern politicians. Fortnightly Rev. , N. S., XL. 143. faddle (fad'l), v . i .; pret. and pp. faddled , ppr. faddling. [Also feddle ; ef. Sc. fadle , faidle , waddle. Cf., for the sense, fiddle , trifle.] To trifle; toy; play. E. Phillips , 1706. [Prov. Eng.] faddom (fad'om), n. and v. An obsolete or dialectal form of fathom . The times change, and I can see a day When all thine happine shall fade away. For sum ar fallen into fylthe that euermore sall fade tham. York Plays , p. 6. Dryden . [ME., also fede ; origin obscure.] Wonder of his hwe men hade, Set in his semblaunt sene; He ferde as freke were fade , & ouer-al enker grene. IMG:content-1010.png:[blocks in formation] (see vade ), faded, pale (of color, complexion, etc.), withered, weak (of body) (cf. OD. vad- digh , weak, languid, lazy, indolent, mod. D. vadzig , lazy, indolent, dull, Dan. fad , Sw. fadd ,