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Definition of Faculties
1. faculty [n] - See also: faculty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Faculties
Literary usage of Faculties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"As faculties depend upon the will of the grantor, the terms of the induit ...
Hence in the use of faculties it must be noted whether power to dispense is ..."
2. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"That such evolution is at least possible, ought not to be denied, for we daily
see these faculties developing in every infant ; and we may trace a perfect ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"We wish to recognize as much of them as our human faculties will permit, and wish
to study them by methods of investigation which proved to be reliable in ..."
4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1841)
"... do neither ascribe faculties to him in that manner that we have them, nor yet
do they attribute any proper faculties at all to God. ..."
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