faculty : Idioms & Phrases

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Dean of faculty

  • the president of an incorporation or barristers; specifically, the president of the incorporation of advocates in Edinburgh.
Webster 1913

Elaborative faculty

  • (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.
Webster 1913

faculty member

  • noun an educator who works at a college or university
    academician; academic.
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Faculty of advocates

  • . (Scot.) See under Advocate.
Webster 1913

mental faculty

  • noun one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
    module; faculty.
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sensory faculty

  • noun the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
    sentiency; sentience; sensation; sense.
    • in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
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