(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.
Fissiparous
Definition:
(a.) Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yes, that might mean five more years of pain, though I suspect in these fissiparous times it won’t last so long.
(2) Groping for British emblems to bind together an ever more diverse and fissiparous society, politicians struggle to find cultural and emotional social glue.
(3) But Clegg must be thinking very carefully about his options – the Liberals have a terribly fissiparous history.
(4) The mortality and fissiparity frequency of the subjects were studied.
(5) At doses where an antioxidant effect prevails, fissiparity is stimulated.
(6) The toxicity of selenium (Na2SeO3) and mercury (HgCl2) was determined by using a freshwater planarian which is particularly sensitive to pollution, and belongs to a fissiparous breed of Dugesia gonocephala.