factiouslyadv.

1539 R. Taverner Catechisme 71 They factiously withdrawe them selues from the felowshyp of the churche.

1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. viii. 123 Why did they carry matters so factiously and violently?

1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 47 They have stubbornly and factiously Conspired against the Apostolical Hierarchy.

1768 J. Dickinson Lett. from Farmer in Pennsylvania vi. 31 Whether the commons insisted on their demand factiously, or for the public good.

1796 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1802) IV. 509 The opposition, whether patriotically or factiously, contending that [etc.].

1841 Bentley's Misc. Dec. 582 If factiously opposed by the domestics, or fractiously by their proprietor.

1875 Examiner 30 Jan. 118/1 If men factiously urge pet crotchets when a great scheme such as the Disestablishment of the Irish Church is before the country, they may be deserving of the severest reprehension.

1931 F. S. Oliver Endless Adventure iii. v. 203 They soon fell to quarrelling among themselves as bitterly and as factiously as they had ever quarrelled with their former opponents.

2005 M. G. White From Philos. Point of View xxxiv. 289 Madison believed that a factiously motivated group will not perform an action if it does not have the opportunity to do so.