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<h1>Facsimile</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac*sim"i*le</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Facsimiles</plw> <tt>(-l<?/z)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[L. <ets>fac simile</ets> make like; or an abbreviation of <ets>factum simile</ets> made like; <ets>facere</ets> to make + <ets>similes</ets> like. See <er>Fact</er>, and <er>Simile</er>.]</ety> <def>A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.</def>

<cs><col>Facsimile telegraph</col>, <cd>a telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in autograph.</cd></cs>

<h1>Facsimile</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac*sim"i*le</hw><def>, (<?/), v. t. To make a facsimile of.</def>

<h1>Fact</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fact</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>factum</ets>, fr. <ets>facere</ets> to make or do. Cf. <er>Feat</er>, <er>Affair</er>, <er>Benefit</er>, <er>Defect</er>, <er>Fashion</er>, and <er>-fy</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A doing, making, or preparing.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A project for the <b>fact</b> and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.</def>

<blockquote>What might instigate him to this devilish <b>fact</b>, I am not able to conjecture. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He who most excels in <b>fact</b> of arms. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Reality; actuality; truth; <as>as, he, in <ex>fact</ex>, excelled all the rest; the <ex>fact</ex> is, he was beaten.</as></def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>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>as, history abounds with false <ex>facts</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>I do not grant the <b>fact</b>. <i>De Foe.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>This reasoning is founded upon a <b>fact</b> which is not true. <i>Roger Long.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; TheTerm <i>fact</i> has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast with <i>low</i>; as, attorney at <i>low</i>, and attorney in <i>fact</i>; issue in <i>low</i>, and issue in <i>fact</i>. There is also a grand distinction between <i>low</i> and <i>fact</i> with reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the latter generally determining the <i>fact</i>, the former the <i>low</i>.</note>

<i>Burrill Bouvier.</i>

<cs><mcol><col>Accessary before</col>, &or; <col>after</col>, <col>the fact</col></mcol>. <cd>See under <er>Accessary</er>.</cd> -- <col>Matter of fact</col>, <cd>an actual occurrence; a verity; used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative; as, a <i>matter-of-fact<i> narration.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence; circumstance.</syn>

<h1>Faction</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>factio</ets> a doing, a company of persons acting together, a faction: cf. F. <ets>faction</ets> See <er>Fashion</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Anc. Hist.)</fld> <def>One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Tumult; discord; dissension.</def>

<blockquote>They remained at Newbury in great <b>faction</b> among themselves. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Combination; clique; junto. See <er>Cabal</er>.</syn>

<h1>Factionary</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac"tion*a*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>factionnaire</ets>, L. <ets>factionarius</ets> the head of a company of charioteers.]</ety> <def>Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Always <b>factionary</b> on the party of your general. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>