facultize

English

Alternative forms

• facultise

Etymology

faculty +‎ -ize

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.
   • 1874, Benjamin Paul Blood, The Anaesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy, page 36:

     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 prophecy is forestalled and bootless in the sole sufficiency whose pæan hath no echo.

2. To educate in an academic discipline.
   • 1873, Richard Frederick Littledale, The Religious Education of Women, page 39:

     Now in Active Orders, more than anywhere else, “facultized" women are a paramount necessity.

   • 1924, Herbert Quick, The Invisible Woman:

     The twister saved me from being facultized; while my roommate, because he was in studying, got his neck broken when the building was wrecked — poor fellow!"

   • 1933, Ada Elizabeth Jones Chesterton, Young China and New Japan:

     Their indifference, however, sharpened to hostility in regard to the Chinese, against whom they seemed to nourish a special grudge. Again and again I heard the most artistic, frugal, and facultized race in the world dismissed as a dirty and ungrateful lot who would be all the better for a touch of the big stick or—ennobling thought!—the big gun.

   • 1956, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Of Whales and Women, page 82:

     The Folgers had a scientific bent, and were known on the island as being "facultized."

   • 1972, College and University - Volume 48, page 38:

     Each group, naturally enough, does different things: students study, administrators administer, and faculty "facultize" ...

3. To develop as an academic discipline.
   • 1906, Granville Stanley Hall, Youth: Its Education, Regimen and Hygiene:

     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 the full maturity of a knowledge fully facultized—a question paramount, even in a republic, to the general education of the many.

   • 2010, Ranamukalage Chandrasoma, Academic Writing and Interdisciplinarity:

     However, in 2001, it became what I might call a 'facultized' discipline; in other words a faculty was named after it.

   • 2018, Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe, Educational Research: Ethics, Social Justice, and Funding:

     Increased intakes were then matched paradoxically by an inescapably homogenizing construction of the student, channeled along certain academic-professional facultized pathways towards domains of study conducive to the priorities of .mushrooming state and imperial bureaucracies and/or the needs of private enterprise for competitive intellectual specialization.