faculty (1 an Eliz. sense)
1.
personal
quality, disposition
H8 I. ii. 73
“neither know My
faculties nor person.”
2.
active quality or
virtue (of a thing)
Cæs. I. iii. 67
“Their natures, and
pre-formed faculties.”
3.
pl. powers
Mac. I. vii. 17
“Duncan Hath borne his
faculties so meek.”