They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves.
Clarendon.
Syn. -- Combination; clique; junto. See Cabal.
Fac"tion*a*ry (?), a. [Cf. F. factionnaire, L. factionarius the head of
a company of charioteers.] Belonging to a faction; being a partisan;
taking sides. [Obs.]
Always factionary on the party of your general.
Shak.
Fac"tion*er (-?r), n. One of a faction. Abp. Bancroft.
Fac"tion*ist, n. One who promotes faction.
Fac"tious (?). a. [L. factiosus: cf. F. factieux.] 1. Given to faction;
addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to
government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor
against public measures or men; -- said of persons.
Factious for the house of Lancaster.
Shak.
2. Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or
characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious
quarrels.
Headlong zeal or factious fury.
Burke.
-- Fac"tious*ly, adv. -- Fac"tious- ness, n.
Fac*ti"tious (?), a. [L. factitius, fr. facere to make. See Fact, and
cf. Fetich.] Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by
nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or
conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not
natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. --
Fac-ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fac*ti"tious-ness, n.
He acquires a factitious propensity, he forms an incorrigible
habit, of desultory reading.
De Quincey.
Syn. -- Unnatural. -- Factitious, Unnatural. Anything is unnatural when
it departs in any way from its simple or normal state; it is factitious
when it is wrought out or wrought up by labor and effort, as, a
factitious excitement. An unnatural demand for any article of
merchandise is one which exceeds the ordinary rate of consumption; a
factitious demand is one created by active exertions for the purpose.
An unnatural alarm is one greater than the occasion requires; a
factitious alarm is one wrought up with care and effort.
Fac"ti*tive (?). a. [See Fact.] 1. Causing; causative.
2. (Gram.) Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as
of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces
some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine.
Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or adjective involves in
it a reference to an effect, in the way of causality, in the active
voice on the immediate objects, and in the passive voice on the
subject of such activity. This second object is called the
factitive object.
J. W. Gibbs.
Fac"tive (?), a. Making; having power to make. [Obs.] "You are . . .
factive, not destructive." Bacon.
||Fac"to (?), adv. [L., ablative of factum deed, fact.] (Law) In fact;
||by the act or fact.
De facto. (Law) See De facto.
Fac"tor (?), n. [L. factor a doer: cf. F. facteur a factor. See Fact.]
1. (Law) One who transacts business for another; an agent; a
substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and
transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or
consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and
sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and
control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.
Story. Wharton.
My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled That owes me for a
hundred tun of wine.
Marlowe.