Billerica Memorial High School - BMHS Yearbook (Billerica, MA)

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ad-min-is-tra-tion (ad-min’is-tra’shan) n. 1 The act of administering, or the state of being administered; managment of public affairs. 2 The government as existing, or the persons collectively who compose it, espe- cially its executive department, also, the official tenure of such government. 3 Law The legal managment and settlement of the estate of a deceased person, as by a trustee or administrator. fac-ul-ty (fak’al-té) n. pl. -ties 1 Any mode of bodily or mental behavior regarded as implying a natural endowment or acquired power: the faculty of seeing, feeling, rea- soning. 2 Any special form of skill, or un- usual ability, whether natural or acquired; knack; turn; native faculty. 3 One of the native complex capacities or powers into which the older psychology analyzed, and to which it ascribed, the phenomena of conscious mental life: the faculty of per- ception, memory, thought, etc. 4 The mem- bers of any one of the learned professions, collectively: the faculty of law or medicine. 5 The body of instructors in a university, college, or higher educational insitution. 6 A department learning or instruction at a university: the English faculty. 7 In the Ro- man Catholic Church, the right to perform certain ecclesiastical functions, bestowed by a prelate upon a subordinate; formerly, also, power or privilege in general be- stowed or otherwise obtained: chiefly in the plural. 8 Ability to do or manage: exe- cute skill and efficiency, especially in do- mestic matters: a housekeeper of noble fac- ulty. 9 Pecuniary resources; means. See synonyms under ABILITY. (OF faculte-L fac- ultas, -tatis, facilis. See FACILE.) Billerica Public Library 15 Concord Road Billerica, MA 01821