Meanings of discriminative faculty in English

But the lad also had a well-developed discriminative faculty.

Thus each sense, unless restrained by the discriminative faculty, seeks to go out towards its special objects.

It may, however, be observed that in the last of these passages Tasso does not show a just discriminative faculty.

The discriminative faculty in turn must be controlled by the higher individual intelligence and this must be governed wholly by the Supreme Intelligence.

Yet they do not well who despise the discriminative faculty in us; for being great, it comprehends all sensibles, and attains to things divine.

The intellect or discriminative faculty is the driver, who controls these wild horses of the senses by holding firmly the reins of the mind.