Faculty
the power or ability of doing anything; capacity for any natural ing anything; capacity for any natural performance, possessed naturally or acquired by practice; one of the powers of quired by practice; one of the powers of the mind or intellect, enabling it to refaculty of imaging, remembering, etc. In ecclesiastical law, a privilege or license granted to any person by favor, and not as a right to do any act which by law he may not do. In mental philosophy, a natural and active power of the human mind, as distinguished from called capacity or receptivity. In the Roman Catholic Church, permission granted by an ecclesiastical superior to Roman Catholic Church, permission sions. Such permission only extends to the district over which the superior has jurisdiction. Thus, faculties are granted by bishops to the priests of their diojurisdiction. Thus, faculties are granted houses to such of their subjects as they judge qualified to hear the confessions of the community.
In the United States, the term faculty indicates the body of persons who are intrusted with the government and instruction of a university or college as a whole, comprising the president, professors, and tutors. It is also used for the FAIDHERBE body of masters and professors of each of the several departments of instruction in a university; as, the law faculty, etc. aliment, and sometimes called alvine disof the bowels, the refuse of the food and dregs; lees; settlings after distillation and infusion. 20 miles from Ravenna. It was once well known for its manufacture of col- 20 miles from Ravenna. It was once well known for its manufacture of colnow the making of paper, silk twist, FAIENCE (q. v.). Its chief industries are now the making of paper, silk twist, and fabrics. Faenza, the ancient Fathe Romans, and was annexed to the States of the Church in the 15th century the Romans, and was annexed to the by Pope Alexander VI., in which condi- tion it remained till 1860, when, with the by Pope Alexander VI., in which condition it remained till 1860, when, with the Emelian provinces, it was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy. Pop. (1901) 22,239.
FAEROE ISLANDS. See FAROE IS- LANDS. a German natural philosopher; born in FAHRENHEIT, GABRIEL DANIEL, a German natural philosopher; born in a maker of scientific instruments, and in 1720 introduced the use of mercury instead of spirits of wine in the construction of the THERMOMETER (q. v.). near the Hallue FAIDHERBE (fā-darb), LOUIS LÉON CÉSAR, a French military officer; born in Lille, France, June 3, 1818. His apprenticeship as a soldier was passed in Algiers and Guadaloupe. He went to Senegal in 1852; became two years later governor of the colony, and extended the colony by the subjugation of the Moorish Trarza in 1858, and of the country of Cayor in 1861. Faidherbe was summoned to France in December, 1870, and given command of the Army of the North. After successfully withstanding Manteuffel's attack river, Dec. 23, he was severely beaten near St. Quentin, Jan. 19, 1871. After the conclusion of peace, he was dispatched by the French government to Upper Egypt to study the monuments of the National Assembly in 1879. Faidherbe published books on the language, geography, and archæology of northern Africa, chief among which are two col- Africa, chief among which are two collections of "Numidian Inscriptions" (1874); "Phoenician Epigraphy" (1873); "The French Soudan" (1884); a work the Ar Army of the North" appeared at Paris in 1871. He died in Paris, Sept.
Paris in 1871. He died in Paris, Sept.
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