1650. Ward, Discolliminium, 16. It must be a National Necessity, and not a Partiall or Factionall.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., IV. Jan., 647. Aiding and leading the independent part of society in instructing, reclaiming, restraining, and balancing the interested and factional parts.
1876. A. M. Fairbairn, David Friedrich Strauss, in The Contemporary Review, XXVII. May, 973 Jews factional, fanatical, full of hopes created by the written word, of thoughts coined in the schools and circulated by tradition.
1881. Fifeshire Jrnl., 24 March, 4/3. There have been two factional victories in Scotland within a brief period.
