sb. rare. [ad. L. facient-em, pr. pple. of facĕre to do, make.] One who does anything; an actor or doer.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. § 77 (1693), 66. Is Sin in the Fact, or in the Mind of the Facient?
1821. Coleridge, in Blackw. Mag., X. Oct., 250. The shape beheld he would grant to be a making in the beholder’s own brain; but the facient, he would contend, was a several and other subject.
