faculty /fakˈəl-ti/

1. Facility or power to act
2. Any particular ability or aptitude
3. An original power of the mind
4. Any physical or mental capability or function
5. Personal quality or endowment
6. Right, authority or privilege to act
7. Licence or authorization
8. A department of learning at a university, or the professors and lecturers constituting it
9. The staff of a school, college or university (N American)
10. The members of a profession
11. Executive ability

facˈultātive adjective

1. Optional
2. Incidental
3. Of or relating to a faculty
4. Conferring privilege, permission or authority
5. (eg of anaerobes) able but not obliged to function in the way specified (zoology)

facˈultatively adverb

facultative parasite noun (biology)

A parasite able to live on dead or decaying organic matter as well as on its living host (cf obligate parasite under oblige)

Court of Faculties

A court established by Henry VIII, whereby authority is given to the Archbishop of Canterbury to grant dispensations and faculties

Faculty of Advocates

The Scottish college of advocates

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