Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A doer; one who does anything, good or bad.
- n. In mathematics, a variable of a quantic.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete One who does something; a doer; an agent.
- n. One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
- n. A multiplier.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent.
- n. One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
- n. The multiplier.
Etymologies
- Latin faciens, facientis, present participle of facere ("do, make"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Theologiam accedunt, non ut rem divinam, sed ut suam facient; non ad Ecclesiae bonum promovendum, sed expilandum; quaerentes, quod”
“De Comania autem insultum facient in terras superius annotatas.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Si male pugnant occidentur ab eis: Si autem bene, ipsos cum promissis adulationibus tenent: et etiam vt ab ipsis non fugiant promittunt eis quod facient eos dominos magnos et post hoc quando securi esse possunt de ipsis, vt non redeant, faciunt eos infoelicissimos seruos.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Erit sane, quum viderit ipse quod non sit puer, morietur, et descendere facient servi tui canitiem servi tui patris nostri cum colore ad sepulcrum.”
“Similiter hæredes regis Scotiæ & baronum & hominum suorum homagium & ligiantiam facient hæredibus domini regis contra omnem hominem.”
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
“Nil erit ulterius, quod nostris moribus addat posteritas; eadem facient cupientque minores, omne in praecipiti vitium stetit.”
“Londoniensis Concilii foeminas suas tenuerunt vel alins duxcrunt, si amplius missam celebrare voluerint, eas a se omnino sic facient alienas, ut nec illae in domos eorum, nec ipsi in domos earum intrent ....”
“Omnes parentes, Libane, liberis suis qui mi auscultabunt, facient obsequellam [3] quippe qui mage amico utantur gnato et benevolo. atque ego me id facere studeo, volo amari a meis;”
“But this famous apostrophe closes on a truer note with six lines of unsurpassed satire (454) -- mortalia nulli sunt curata deo. cladis tamen huius habemus vindictam, quantam terris dare numina fas est: bella pares superis facient civilia divos; fulminibus manes radiisque ornabit et astris, inque deum templis iurabit Roma per umbras.”
“Quid deserta petis? tutior auiis non est forma locis: te nemore abdito cum Titan medium constituit diem, cingent turba licens Naides improbae, 20 formonsos solitae claudere fontibus, et somnis facient insidias tuis”
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