(a.) 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.
(a.) Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, the imminent change in the party's presidency and the election of a new prime minister reflect the factious nature of the country's politics," Moody's warned.
(2) Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has 'Spartan lifestyle', official declares Read more He also needs to be savvier in dealing with a factious national assembly whose support he will need to enact some of the energy sector and other reforms Nigeria desperately needs.
Fictious
Definition:
(a.) Fictitious.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study is a partial replication study of a community with the fictious name of Regionville which was first studied by E. L. Koos in the period 1946-50.
(2) Therefore the child is treated as a fictious adult.
(3) The activity of neurons in the rostral part of the fastigial nucleus was recorded during fictious scratch reflex (FSR) in immobilized cats.
(4) Impulse activity of lumbar interneurons was recorded extracellularly during fictious locomotion of thalamic cats.
(5) The cord dorsum and dorsal root potentials were recorded during fictious scratching in L6 segment of the thalamic cats.
(6) A letter of inquiry from a fictious dentist, requesting applications and information regarding training in dental public health, was sent to each of the 19 accredited Schools of Public Health.
(7) The increase of space between the pubic bones described in these syndromes is fictious, as it really signifies the existence of non-ossified cartilage.