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Constitution is a related term of faculty.


As a proper noun constitution

is the supreme law of some countries, such as australia, ireland, and the united states.

As a noun faculty is

the scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.

constitution

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of such a thing; its makeup.
  • * Sir J. Herschel
  • the physical constitution of the sun
  • The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions.
  • * Macaulay
  • Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were not much accustomed to frame exact definitions.
  • A legal document describing such a formal system.
  • The general health of a person.
  • A person's physique or temperament.
  • * Story
  • Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the old world.
  • * Clarendon
  • He defended himself with less passion than was expected from his constitution .

    Derived terms

    * constitutional * metaconstitution

    faculty

    English

    Noun

    (faculties)
  • The scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff.
  • A division of a university (e.g. a Faculty of Science or Faculty of Medicine).
  • An ability, skill, or power, often plural.
  • * '>citation
  • I have used the notion of games so far as if it were familiar to most people. I think this is justified as everyone knows how to play some games. Accordingly, games serve admirably as models for the clarification of other, less well-understood, social-psychological phenomena. Yet the ability to follow rules, play games, and construct new games is a faculty not equally shared by all persons. [...]
    He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.

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