Noah Webster's 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.

Multi-Version 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)