Vocabulary : Fact to Factive

Fact : A doing, making, or preparing. ;; An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance. ;; Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten. ;; The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.
Facta : of Factum
Faction : One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. ;; A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good. ;; Tumult; discord; dissension.
Factionary : Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides.
Factioner : One of a faction.

Factionist : One who promotes faction.
Factious : 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. ;; Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels.
Factitious : 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.
Factitive : Causing; causative. ;; 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.
Factive : Making; having power to make.

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