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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.</def>

<blockquote>He had a ready <b>faculty</b>, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Power; prerogative or attribute of office.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>This Duncan Hath borne his <b>faculties</b> so meek. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.</def>

<blockquote>The pope . . . granted him a <b>faculty</b> to set him free from his promise. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It had not only <b>faculty</b> to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the colleges. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (<i>profitendi</i> or <i>docendi</i>) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; <as>as, the medical <ex>faculty</ex>; the legal <ex>faculty</ex>, ect.</as></def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Amer. Colleges)</fld> <def>The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.</def>

<cs><col>Dean of faculty</col>. <cd>See under <er>Dean</er>.</cd> -- <col>Faculty of advocates</col>. <fld>(Scot.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Advocate</er>.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Talent; gift; endowment; dexterity; expertness; cleverness; readiness; ability; knack.</syn>

<h1>Facund</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fac"und</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>facundus</ets>, fr. <ets>fari</ets> to speak.]</ety> <def>Eloquent.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<h1>Facundious</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fa*cun"di*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>facundiosus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Eloquement; full of words.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<h1>Facundity</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fa*cun"di*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>facunditas</ets>.]</ety> <def>Eloquence; readiness of speech.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<h1>Fad</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fad</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Faddle</er>.]</ety> <def>A hobby ; freak; whim.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Fad"dist</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<blockquote>It is your favorite <b>fad</b> to draw plans. <i>G. Eliot.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Faddle</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fad"dle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Fiddle</er>, <er>Fiddle-faddle</er>.]</ety> <def>To trifle; to toy.</def> -- <def2><tt>v. t. </tt> <def>To fondle; to dandle.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark></def2>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Fade</h1> <Xpage=537>

<hw>Fade</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F., prob. fr. L. <ets>vapidus</ets> vapid, or possibly fr,<ets>fatuus</ets> foolish, insipid.]</ety> <def>Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "Passages that are somewhat <i>fade</i>."

<i>Jeffrey.</i>

<blockquote>His masculine taste gave him a sense of something <b>fade</b> and ludicrous. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fade</h1> <Xpage=537>