Search the Dictionary

Tumult; discord; dissension. They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves. Clarendon.

Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides. [Obs.] Always factionary on the party of your general. Shak.

One of a faction. Abp. Bancroft.

One who promotes faction.

The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.

accustomed; habituation. [Obs.] Custom and studies efform the soul like wax, and by assuefaction introduce a nature. Jer. Taylor.

The act of conferring a benefit. Johnson.

The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.

The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.

Cineration; reduction to ashes. [Obs.]

f different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.

ns. The ambitious man has little happiness, but is subject to much uneasiness and dissatisfaction. Addison.

A heating or warming; calefaction. [Obs.] Blount.

The act of making cold. [Obs.]

Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

fying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin. There is in it such a labefaction of all principles as may be injurious to morality. Johnson.

cess, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.

The act of lubricating, or making smooth. Ray. Bacon.

The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. [R.] Bacon.

A crime; an offense; an evil deed. [R.] Shak.