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Definition of Factious

Factious
Factious 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.

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- International Development "Voice of a nation: How Juba Arabic helps bridge a factious South Sudan". The Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved...
- according to Dorothy L. Sayers. Dante also uses Justinian to criticize the factious politics of his 14th-century Italy, divided between Ghibellines and Guelphs...
- January 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2016. William Nelson, Legal Turmoil in a Factious Colony: New York, 1664–1776, 38 Hofstra L. Rev. 69 (2009). "Sara Jane Sandberg...
- operation of parties in mind, as they had been thought disre****ble and factious. The Federalists planned to deal with this by having all their electors...
- later airing his dismay that Whig leaders had made such a fuss about ‘a factious preacher much below their notice’. He became a Commissioner for excise...
- irrespective of its factious or non factious character; and they can be used against the majority irrespective of its factious or non factious character. What...
- "patriot" had a negative connotation and was used as a negative epithet for "a factious disturber of the government". Prior to the American Revolution, colonists...
- and is well known for its opening lines: "OH the distraction of this Factious age! / Have not wile-men (who are starke mad with rage, / Brought this...
- was constant tension, particularly in peacetime. According to Holt, the factious nature of emirs who were not the sultan's khushdashiyya stemmed from their...
- diplomacy, and intrigue to take over the rule of Bengal from her people, factious nobles, and weak Nawab. Subsequently, to consolidate its hold on the province...