To invest with faculty or power; to enable or authorize.
From faculty + -ize (suffix creating verbs). A rare formation following the productive pattern of -ize verbs, though it never achieved common usage.
This is a word that looks like it should exist but basically never got off the ground—someone could theoretically facultize another person with rights, but no one ever actually says it!
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