Word Meanings - UNDERFACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subordinate party or faction.

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• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
  Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
• SUBORDINATE
  1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was
• PARTYISM
  Devotion to party.
• FACTIONARY
  Belonging to a faction; being a partisan; taking sides. Always factionary on the party of your general. Shak.
• FACTIONIST
  One who promotes faction.
• PARTY-COATED
  Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors. Shak.
• FACTIONER
  One of a faction. Abp. Bancroft.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• REFACTION
  Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell.
• COLLIQUEFACTION
  A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon.
• UNSATISFACTION
  Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall.
• AREFACTION
  The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.
• UNDERFACTION
  A subordinate party or faction.
• PURPARTY
  A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.
• OLFACTION
  The sense by which the impressions made on the olfactory organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are perceived.
• STUPEFACTION
  The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied. Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. South.
• INSATISFACTION
  1. Insufficiency; emptiness. Bacon. 2. Dissatisfaction. Sir T. Browne.
• RUBEFACTION
  The act or process of making red.
• TORREFACTION
  The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied. Bp. Hall.