[f. as prec. + -EER.] A member of a faction, a party-man.
c. 1710. Light to Blind, fo. 626, in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 142. The factioneers must have their will.
1732. Sir C. Wogan, Letter to Swift, 27 Feb. He [Charles II.] found himself obliged to … turn cabalist and factioneer.
1806. W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem., II. 139. Appoint a factioneer by any other voice than the people’s, and he is ruined.
