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facultized

facultized is the simple past and past participle of facultize.

Meaning of facultize

Verb

facultize (third-person singular simple present facultizes, present participle facultizing, simple past and past participle facultized)

  1. (obsolete) To make use of one's faculties; to perform skilled work.
    • And behold, I say unto you, the Supreme Genius doth not facultize ; the glory is not what it does but what it is ; it hath no old nor new, no here nor there ; it stays not to remember, to wonder, to compare ; to the vehm of the patrician Presence, omniscience were an idle labor and delay, and...1874, Benjamin Paul Blood, The Anaesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy, page 36
  2. To educate in an academic discipline.
    • Now in Active Orders, more than anywhere else, “facultized" women are a paramount necessity.1873, Richard Frederick Littledale, The Religious Education of Women, page 39
  3. To develop as an academic discipline.
    • Indeed, it is a question not of schools but of civilization, whether mental training, from the three R's to science and philosophy, shall really make men better, as the theory of popular education assumes, and whether the genius and talent of the few who can receive and bear it can be brought to...1906, Granville Stanley Hall, Youth: Its Education, Regimen and Hygiene

Adjective

facultized (comparative more facultized, superlative most facultized)

  1. Having many faculties; skillful.
    • Huldy was a tailoress by trade; but then she was one o' these 'ere facultized persons that has a gift for most anything, and that was how Mis' Carryl come to set sech store by her, that, when she was sick, nothin' would do for her but she must have Huldy round all the time: and the minister he said...1896, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown folks, and Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories
    • The educational system and conduct of life is based upon a mythical assumption which has been endured all too long. This assumption is that mind is a facultized entity free of the body; that this mind is all-capacious and should be crammed and kept going as long as the owner can wriggle under the...1905, Philip Henry Erbés, Education Brained; Or, Education from the Standpoint of the Brain and Brain-cells, page 7

Forms of facultized

comparativemore facultized
superlativemost facultized

Questions about facultized

What does facultized mean?
Facultized means having many faculties; skillful.
What is facultized the simple past and past participle of?
Facultized is the simple past and past participle of facultize.
What part of speech is facultized?
Facultized is an adjective.

Words near facultized in the dictionary

  1. facultise
  2. facultised
  3. facultises
  4. facultising
  5. facultize
  6. facultized
  7. facultizes
  8. facultizing
  9. faculty
  10. facund
  11. facundious

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