单词 | factionate |
释义 | factionatev. Somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] seeOE drawc1275 mella1300 meeta1325 fellow1340 usec1384 conjoinc1386 joinc1390 knitc1400 accompany1461 enfellowship1470 frequent1477 haunt1477 mixa1513 encompanya1533 combinea1535 contract1548 to take with ——1562 associate1581 to have a saying toa1593 cope1594 sort1594 to take in1597 consort1600 herd1606 factionate1611 to keep company (with)a1616 accost1633 solder1641 converse1649 walk1650 consociate1653 coalite1734 to get with ——a1772 forgather1786 unionize1810 to go rounda1867 to mix in1870 cop1940 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvi. 667/2 Whose bodies though thus diuided, their mindes continued most firmely factionated. 2. intransitive and transitive. To split into factions. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > join or form a party or take sides [verb (intransitive)] > split into factions schismatize1601 factionate1642 split1824 factionalize1949 splinter1967 1642 J. Hales Tract conc. Schisme 11 Factionating and tumultuating of great and potent Bishops. 1970 S. R. Roen in I. Iscoe & C. D. Spielberger Community Psychol. iv. 64 Compartmentalizing in these terms..has factionated graduate education. 1983 Peabody Jrnl. Educ. 60 117 Invidious social comparison, which tends to factionate people who might otherwise engage in fruitful social relationships. 1995 R. O. Clemmer Roads in Sky vii. 199 While the Movement may appear to have been factionating, it actually achieved..a rare degree of unity. Derivatives ˈfactionated adj. ΚΠ 1648 J. Lilburne Peoples Prerogative & Priviledges Vindicated 67 My Lord and the rest of his new factionated Independents. 1958 H. G. Barnett in J. W. Wiggins & H. Schoeck Foreign Aid Reexamined xi. 189 The stratagem of educating a chosen few..leaves a shaken or factionated society incapable of functioning on its own. 1971 J. Ablon in A. Gorr School in Social Setting viii. 240/1 Communities that are dependent, hostile, and factionated. 2002 C. Clark in P. C. Y. Chow Taiwan's Modernization in Global Perspective iii. vii. 140 The electoral system..was seen as conducive to a factionated large ruling party. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1611 |
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