his kind in China, Turkey, and other distant parts of the world.

Faculties, in Astronomy, certain spots occasionally seen on the disc of the sun. See Astronomy, iv., 28., &c.Law, a privilege granted to a person by favour or indulgence, to do that which by law he may not do. Thus the Archbishop of Canterbury has a court of faculties for granting certain privileges and dispensations; such as liberty to marry without the publication of banns, to ordain a deacon under age, &c.

a university, one of the particular departments of learning. In most universities there are four faculties; viz. that of arts (including humanity and philosophy); that of theology; that of medicine; and that of law. See Universities.

Faculty, Dean of. See Dean.