factionate

present singular third person factionates · participle present factionating · participle past factionated · past factionated

1. Synonym of factionalize.

   However, the Council immediately began to factionate.

   1969, Urban Education, page 75

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   I said I would feel more comfortable with a smaller ICBM on the U.S. side if I could be assured that the Soviet Union would not factionate beyond 10 reentry vehicles.

   1979, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Research and Development, Impact of SALT on U.S. Military Research and Development

   They create situations that allow, even encourage, invidious social comparison, which tends to factionate people who might otherwise engage in fruitful social relationships.

   1986, Leonard Bickman, David L. Weatherford, Evaluating early intervention programs for severely handicapped children and their families, page 320

   Synonyms: factionalize

comparative more factionate · superlative most factionate

1. Showing great loyalty to one's faction; tribal.

   They have gained this reputation by being intensely rivalrous and obsessively factionate, however, so the impression that the "placing" litany of questions is primarily incorporative in its intent is, I think, largely erroneous.

   1993, David Michael Brawn, Immanent domains: ways of living in Bone, Indonesia, page 49