Obs. [f. FACTION v. + -ER1.] One who makes or joins a faction; a partisan.
1587. Holinshed, Scot. Chron., II. 440/1. The assemblie … did … appoint generall fastings … especiallie, when some factioner in the countrie was to moue anie great enterprise.
c. 1610. Sir J. Melvil, Mem. (1735), 311. He was advertised by some Factioners, that the Earls of Angus, Mar, and Master of Glammis, had an Enterprize in hand.
1644. Hertegan, Lett., in Carte, Ormonde, III. 360. Ormonde’s factioners meet every night, and resolve what is to be proposed and concluded for my Lord’s interests next day.
