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fsftor; the faftoi’s affignees have no property in finch 
cargo, arid cannot recover tlie produce of it, againft: the 
affignees of the principal, if the latter have fold it, and 
received the purchafe-money. i Term Rep. 783. The con- 
lignor may flop goods in trcmfilu before they get into the 
hands of the contignee, in cafe of the infolvency of the 
■confignee ; but if the confignee atlign the bills of lading 
to a third perfon for a valuable confideration, the right of 
the conlignor as againft fuch affignee is diverted. There 
is no dillinction between a bill-of lading indorfed in blank, 
and an indorlement to a particular perfon. 1 //. Blac. 
Rep. 357. 
FAC'TORAGE, f. The wages or allowance made to 
a faftor by the merchant. The gain of factorage is cer¬ 
tain, however the fuccefs proves to the merchant; but the 
commiflions and allowances vary according to the culloms 
and didance of the country wherein factors are refident. 
FAC TORS, f. in arithmetic, a name given to the 
two numbers that are multiplied together, viz. the mul¬ 
tiplicand and multiplier; fo called becaufe they are to 
fctcereproduElum, make or constitute the faftum or product. 
FAC'TORSHIP, f. The office or employment of a 
factor. 
FAC'TOR Y,f. A houfe ordiftrift inhabited by traders 
in a diftant country. The traders embodied in one place. 
FAC TO'TUM, f. [Latin, t.e. do all: it is ufed like- 
wife in burlefque French.] One who manages all affairs 
in a family ; a fervant who does all bufinefs ; applied far- 
caftically to thofe mean and fervile perfons who devote 
themfelves to the arbitrary will of a rich fuperior. 
FAC'TUM, in arithmetic, the product of two quan¬ 
tities multiplied together. As, the faftum of 3 and 4 is 
12 ; and the fadtum of 2 a and 5 b is \oab. 
FA.C'TURE, f. [French.] The act or manner of 
making any thing. 
FA'CUL-dE,/! i't afironomy, a name given by Scheiner 
and others, to certain bright fpots on the fun’s dife, that 
appear more bright and lucid than the reft of his body. 
Hevelius alfures us that, on July 20, 1634, lie obferved 
a facula whofe, breadth was equal to a third part of the 
fun’s diameter. He fays too, that the maculae often change 
into fuculae ; but tl-.efe leldom or never into maculae. 
And Come authors even contend that all the maculae de¬ 
generate into faculae before they quite difappear. Many 
authors, after Kircher and Scheiner, have reprefented the 
fun’s body full of bright fiery fpots, which they conceive 
to be a fort of volcanos in the body of the fun : but Huy¬ 
gens, and others of the 1 ate(t obfervers, finding that tlie 
belt telefcopes difeover nothing of the matter, agree en¬ 
tirely to explode the phenomena of faculae. All the 
foundation he could lee for the notion of facuhe, he fays, 
was, that in the durkilh clouds which frequently furround 
the macuhe, there are fometimes feen little points or 
[parks brighter than the reft. Their caufe is attributed 
by thele authors to the tremulous agitation of thevapours 
near our earth ; the fame as fometimes fliews a little un- 
evennefs in the circumference of the fun’s dife when 
viewed through a telefcope. Striftly then, the faculae 
are not eruftations of fire and flame, but refraftions of 
the fun’s rays in the rarer exhalations, which, being con- 
denied near that (hade, feem to exhibit a light greater 
than that of the fun. 
FA'CULENCK, f. [fax, Lat. a torch. ] Brightnefs ; 
clearnefs. Scott. Not muck ufed. 
FA'CULTY, f. [faculte, Fr. facultas, Lat.] The 
power of doing any tiling ; ability; whether corporal or 
intelledfual.—Reafon i - . man fupplies the deleft of other 
faculties wherein we are inferior to hearts ; and wliat we 
cannot compafs by force, we bring about by liratugem. 
L' Ejl range. 
Orators may grieve ; for in their Tides, 
Ratherthan heads, their faculty abides. Denham. 
Powers of tlie mind, imagination, reafon, memory.—In tlie 
FAD 
ordinary way of fpeaking, the underftanding and will are 
two faculties of the mind.' Lockc. 
I underftand in the priryie end 
Of nature, her the inferior ; in the mind 
And inward faculties, which moft excel. Milton. 
Mechanical power.—The fifth -mechanical faculty is tlie 
wedge ufed in cleaving wood. Wilkins. —[Inphyfic.] A 
power or ability to perform any aftion, natural, vital, 
and animal : by the firrt they underftand that by which 
the body is nourillied, or another like it generated : the 
vital faculty is that by which life is preferved, and the or¬ 
dinary funftions of the body performed ; and the animal 
faculty is what condufts the operations of the mind. Quincy. 
—A knack ; habitual excellence ; dexteriiy.—He had 
an excellent faculty in preaching, if he were not too re¬ 
fined. Swijt. —Quality ; perfonal difpofition or habit of 
good or ill : 
1 am traduc’d by tongues which neither know 
My faculties or perfon, yet will be 
The chronicles of my doing. Shakcfpcarc. 
Natural vittue; efficacy : 
In requital ope his leathern ferip, 
And (hew me fimples. of a thoufand names, 
Telling their ftrange and vigorou sfaculties. Milton. 
Power ; authority : 
This Duncan 
Hath borne his faculties fo meek, hath been 
So clear in his great office, that his virtues 
Will plead like angels. Shakcfpenre . 
Faculty, in an univerfity, denotes the mafters and pro- 
fertbrs of thefeveral (ciences : as, a meeting of the faculty 
or faculties. In moft univerfities there are tour faculties; 
that of arts, which includes philofophy and the humani¬ 
ties or languages, and is the moft ancient and extenlive ; 
the fecond is that of theology; the third, that pf medi¬ 
cine; and the fourth, jurifprudence, or laws. 
FA'CULTY,'in law, a privilege granted to a man by 
favour and indulgence, to do that which by law he ought 
not to do. And for the granting of thefe, there is a court 
under the archbiftiop of Canterbury, called the Court of 
the Faculties ; and the chief officer thereof the Mafer of the 
Faculties ; who has power by flat. 25 Hen. VIII. c. 21. to 
grant difpenfations ; as to marry perfons without the banns 
firlt afked, (and every diocefan may make the like grants,) 
to ordain a deacon underage, for a foil to fucceed the la¬ 
ther in his benefice, one to have two or mure benefices 
incompatible, &c. And in this court are regift red tlie 
certificates of bilhops and noblemen granted to their chap¬ 
lains, to qualify them for pluralities and non-relidence, 
4 1 ‘lfl. 337. 
FACU'ND, adj. [ facundus,\joX.~\ Eloquent. 
FACUN'DIOUS, adj. Full of eloquence. Scott. 
FACUN'DUS, bifhop of Hermiana, a city of the pro¬ 
vince of Byzacena in Africa, in the fixth century, no¬ 
ticed by ecclefiaftical hiftorians principally on account of 
bis zeal pus defence of the Three Chapters, againft which the 
emperor Juftinian was perfuaded, by Theodore bifhop of 
Ctefarea, to iffiue an edict of condemnation in the year 
544. He was an able and eloquent writer, and well con- 
verfant in the works of the fathers, and tlie controverfies 
of the times ; but was often carried by his impetuofity and 
zeal beyond tlie limits of calm reafoning and moderation. 
His remains were publiihed by father Sinnond, 1629, 8vo. 
with notes, after a copy taken from a MS. in the Vatican 
library ; and were afterwards reprinted together whh the 
works of Optatus, in 1675, by Philip le Prieur, as well 
as in the collections of father Sirmond’s woi ks, publifhed 
in 1699 and 1721. 
To FAD'DLE, v.n. [corrupted from to fiddle, or toy 
with the fingers.] To trifle ; to toy ; to play. A low word. 
To FADE, v.n. [fade, Fr. infipid, languid.] To tend 
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