Noun, : a faculty for making friends easily. ,Though very sick, he is in full possession of all his faculties. ,the faculties of sight and hearing. ,a president with a faculty for management. ,the medical faculty. ,The police were given the faculty to search the building. From Dictionary.com.
Intelligence, reason, conscience, what we call the faculties of the soul, are of modern date. From Wordnik.com. [Part III, Chapter VI of "Uranie"] Reference
For Kant, "the suprasensible destination of all our faculties is the pre-destination of a moral being.". From Wordnik.com. [Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc'] Reference
The keystone of the intellectual faculties is the reason, and George Eliot had a thoroughly logical mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses] Reference
In like manner, all that we call faculties, capacities, and the like, are, in a far deeper sense than the conventional use of the word. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
Different credit systems in faculties and the apparently "typical" situation of (life-long) professors who act irresponsibly towards their students. From Wordnik.com. [Protest! Violence! Chaos!] Reference
The restoration of my faculties was the signal for new persecutions. From Wordnik.com. [Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3] Reference
Probably the most largely developed of all his faculties was his memory. From Wordnik.com. [The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,] Reference
Later on, so-called faculties were developed in the place of such alliances. From Wordnik.com. [Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations] Reference
She spoke to me just as she used to do; indeed her faculties are as clear as yours or mine. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
Instantly all his faculties were alert, yet oddly enough he seemed held rigid and speechless. From Wordnik.com. [The Shagganappi] Reference
The whole Chinese idea is that this balance of the faculties is the first and grand essential. From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
Aunt Henny had aged preceptibly since her imprisonment, but her faculties were as keen as ever. From Wordnik.com. [Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice] Reference
His faculties were his own as much as his collection, and to be used according to his caprice and pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Scratching his head, as if to recall his faculties, Peter stared vacantly at the sandwiches which lay beside him on a piece of old newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication] Reference
Monsignor Meyers had been in the position since July 2009 and it was his job to grant clergymen what are known as faculties to serve as priests. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
And doubtless this perpetual strain of the faculties was the object of Mejnour in works that did not seem exactly pertinent to the purposes in view. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
Coleridge she held, that the act of praying with the total concentration of the faculties is the very highest energy of which the human heart is capable. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss] Reference
It is rather a complex thing resulting from the combined action of many brain centres, and, on the mental side, of many so-called faculties, or functions. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Mind] Reference
According to Reid (who might object to being pressed into service in defense of Hume), this belief in the reliability of our faculties is a first principle. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
"faculties" -- specifying where and on whom such power may be exercised. From Wordnik.com. [Confession and Absolution] Reference
It cost me my priestly "faculties," but not my ministry. From Wordnik.com. [Dallas Methodist bishop to local pastor: Gay is not exactly OK | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com] Reference
And we are, according to Kant, a kind of being characterized by three active "faculties" and one passive faculty. From Wordnik.com. [The Transcendental: Deleuze, P. B. Shelley, and the Freedom of Immobility] Reference
So, those of you who are uncertain about their "faculties", please have radical charity for their faithful unless you are absolutely certain they have none. From Wordnik.com. [Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English] Reference
They are not "faculties" through which the soul acts. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
The sensibility to the marvelous is the one of our faculties which is, perhaps, the soonest exhausted by a strain. From Wordnik.com. [The Cold Snap 1898] Reference
Catholics from extinction was to send priests from abroad, and Allen was given "faculties" for all England to impart to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Archbishop Wuerl responded that Fr. Drinan has 'faculties' in Washington, meaning he is authorized to celebrate the sacraments. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Some "faculties," as memory and volition, may be said in a sense to be primordial endowments of every nerve cell -- even of every body cell. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference
"faculties" or schools for higher education for France. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization] Reference
"faculties" conferred, in 1357, on Cardinal Albornoz, first edited by. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
"faculties," and the aim of education as broadly social rather than personal. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization] Reference
"the faculties of theology" of other "faculties", namely those of canonists, physicians, and artists. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
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