Word Meanings - UNDERFACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A subordinate party or faction.
Related words: (words related to UNDERFACTION)
- 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.