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Greek

189. akoe -- hearing, the sense of hearing
... hearing, the sense of hearing. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: akoe
Phonetic Spelling: (ak-o-ay') Short Definition: hearing, faculty of hearing ...
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145. aistheterion -- organ of perception
... of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: aistheterion Phonetic Spelling:
(ahee-sthay-tay'-ree-on) Short Definition: perceptive faculty Definition: perceptive ...
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619. apolausis -- enjoyment
... enjoyment. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: apolausis Phonetic Spelling:
(ap-ol'-ow-sis) Short Definition: the faculty or experience of enjoyment ...
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3563. nous -- mind, understanding, reason
... reason. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: nous Phonetic Spelling:
(nooce) Short Definition: the mind, reasoning faculty Definition: the mind, the ...
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1271. dianoia -- the mind, disposition, thought
... From dia and nous; deep thought, properly, the faculty (mind or its disposition),
by implication, its exercise -- imagination, mind, understanding. ...
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4457. porosis -- a covering with a callous, fig. blindness
... figuratively) or in general" (, 97); "originally and then the of this, ie
metaphorically applied to organs of feeling, meaning of the faculty of perception ...
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5486. charisma -- a gift of grace, a free gift
... from danger or passion); (specially), a (spiritual) endowment, ie (subjectively)
religious qualification, or (objectively) miraculous faculty -- (free) gift. ...
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3775. ous -- the ear
... of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: ous Phonetic Spelling: (ooce) Short Definition:
the ear Definition: (a) the ear, (b) met: the faculty of perception. ...
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990. blemma -- a look
... a look. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: blemma Phonetic Spelling:
(blem'-mah) Short Definition: look, the faculty of looking Definition: a look ...
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3056. logos -- a word (as embodying an idea), a statement, a ...
... From lego; something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject
of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension ...
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Library

The Faculty of Faith.
... Seventh Chapter. FAITH. XXXVIII. The Faculty of Faith. ... And this is the implanted
faculty of faith. This faculty touches the consciousness. ...
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Whether Anger is in the Concupiscible Faculty?
... OF ANGER, IN ITSELF (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether anger is in the concupiscible faculty?
Objection 1: It would seem that anger is in the concupiscible faculty. ...
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Man is Endowed with the Faculty of Distinguishing Good and Evil ...
... Against Heresies: Book IV Chapter XXXIX."Man is endowed with the faculty of
distinguishing good and evil; so that, without compulsion, he has the power, by ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xxxix man is endowed with.htm

Whether Prudence is in the Cognitive or in the Appetitive Faculty?
... TREATISE ON THE CARDINAL VIRTUES (QQ -170)OF PRUDENCE, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF (SIXTEEN
ARTICLES) Whether prudence is in the cognitive or in the appetitive faculty ...
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Whether the Subject of Pride is the Irascible Faculty?
... OF PRIDE (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether the subject of pride is the irascible faculty? ...
Now observation pertains not to the irascible but to the rational faculty. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the subject of pride.htm

"Now Besides These Organs of Sense, He Has a Power or Faculty of ...
... Address 59: "Now besides these organs of sense, he has a power or faculty
of reasoning upon� "Now besides these organs of sense ...
/.../address 59 0 0 now besides these.htm

Men are Possessed of Free Will, and Endowed with the Faculty of ...
... Against Heresies: Book IV Chapter XXXVII."Men are possessed of free will,
and endowed with the faculty of making a choice. It ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xxxvii men are possessed of.htm

Whether the Irascible Passions Precede the Concupiscible Passions ...
... For the order of the passions is that of their objects. But the object of the irascible
faculty is the difficult good, which seems to be the highest good. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the irascible passions precede.htm

Prayer in the Unconverted.
... The faculty of prayer is not an acquisition of later years, but is created in us,
inherent in the root of our being, inseparable from our nature. ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xli prayer in the unconverted.htm

Introduction to 'epinoia
... It is important, for the understanding of the following Book, to determine what
faculty of the mind 'Epinoia is. ... He calls it an inventive faculty. ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/introduction to epinoia.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.

2. (n.) Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.

3. (n.) Power; prerogative or attribute of office.

4. (n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.

5. (n.) 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 (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, etc.

6. (n.) The body of person to whom are entrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.

Thesaurus

Faculty (1 Occurrence)
... profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present,
the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty...
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Reason (438 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from
the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from ...
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Conscience (36 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary That faculty of the mind, or inborn sense of right and
wrong, by which we judge of the moral character of human conduct. ...
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Understanding (248 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the
rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of ...
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Will (64996 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it
is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to ...
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Judgment (430 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when
unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good ...
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Gift (148 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a preeminent and special
talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking. ...
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Imagination (20 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials
furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the ...
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Invention (4 Occurrences)
... falsehood. 5. (n.) The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or
ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. 6 ...
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Faculties (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Plural of Faculty. Multi-Version Concordance
Faculties (5 Occurrences). Romans 6:13 and no longer ...
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Bible Concordance

Faculty (1 Occurrence)

Acts 17:29 Since then we are God's offspring, we ought not to imagine that His nature resembles gold or silver or marble, or anything sculptured by the art and inventive faculty of man.
(WEY)

Subtopics

Faculty

Related Terms

Reason (438 Occurrences)

Conscience (36 Occurrences)

Understanding (248 Occurrences)

Will (64996 Occurrences)

Judgment (430 Occurrences)

Gift (148 Occurrences)

Imagination (20 Occurrences)

Invention (4 Occurrences)

Faculties (5 Occurrences)