Fromfaction +-ate(verb-forming suffix).
factionate (third-person singular simple presentfactionates,present participlefactionating,simple past and past participlefactionated)
- Synonym offactionalize
1969,Urban Education, page75:However, the Council immediately began tofactionate.
1979, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Research and Development,Impact of SALT on U.S. Military Research and Development: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 notfactionate beyond 10 reentry vehicles.
1986, Leonard Bickman, David L. Weatherford,Evaluating early intervention programs for severely handicapped children and their families, page320:They create situations that allow, even encourage, invidious social comparison, which tends tofactionate people who might otherwise engage in fruitful social relationships.
Fromfaction +-ate(adjective-forming suffix).
factionate (comparativemorefactionate,superlativemostfactionate)
- Showing greatloyalty to one's faction;tribal.
1993, David Michael Brawn,Immanent domains: ways of living in Bone, Indonesia, page49:They have gained this reputation by being intensely rivalrous and obsessivelyfactionate, however, so the impression that the "placing" litany of questions is primarily incorporative in its intent is, I think, largely erroneous.
