(chiefly, North American, Philippines) The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.
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A division of a university.
He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.
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(Often in the plural): An ability, power, or skill.
1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVIII., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 442-444:
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