(n.) The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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