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n as chief. Milton. What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! Shak.

An inferior or subordinate faculty.

r competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren. Acts xi. 29. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study. Bacon. The public men of Eng…

Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name. Locke. A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced b…

Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. "The abstractive faculty." I. Taylor.

The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe.

Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden.

The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness…

Christ, considered as an intercessor. We have an Advocate with the Father. 1 John ii. 1. Faculty of advocates (Scot.), the Scottish bar in Edinburgh. -- Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. -- Judge advocate. See under Judge.

nnect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer.

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue. Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper.

The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [Chiefly in Phrenol.]

The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love. Combe.

Pertaining the faculty of using both hands with equal ease. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

The faculty of perceiving; a percipient. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. Sir M. Hale.

The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.