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faculty

noun
/ˈfæk.əl.ti/US

Etymology

From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile. Doublet of facility.

  1. derived from facultas
  2. derived from faculte
  3. inherited from faculte

Definitions

  1. The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research…

    The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.

  2. A division of a university.

    • She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.

  3. An ability, power, or skill.

    • He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.
    • What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty!
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.

      • Unless he has bi-ritual faculties, the Latin priest must baptize and confirm the Eastern rite person, whether infant or adult, according to the liturgical books of the Latin church ( canon 846 , §2 ).

    2. A licence to make alterations to a church.

    3. The members of a profession.

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Derived

facultied, facultize, interfaculty, nonfaculty, staffaculty, subfaculty

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at faculty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at faculty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at faculty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA