factio

"The Latin word factio denoted originally either of the chariot teams that were organized professionally by private companies in ancient Rome.

Pepys' Diary 2010

Mr. Marty alleges a wider range of misdeeds, including detainee abuse and score-settling among Kosovo's various Albanian factio ns.

Organ Trafficking Charge Hits Kosovo Gordon Fairclough 2010

Fortasse factio conservativa secundum similem legem scientiae inviderunt.

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Human activity directed to the modification of external matter is said to be engaged in a factio (cutting, building, melting, etc.); but when this activity remains within the doer, it is called actio (in the restricted sense of the word).

The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

Accordingly if magnificence be taken to denote the doing of something great, the doing (_factio_) being understood in the strict sense, it is then a special virtue.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

The same is true of "haereticae pravitatis nocens factio" with Ep. liii.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

After that emperor's conversion they became more prominent, especially after the law of the year 321 allowed churches to receive all kinds of legacies, and granted them the "factio testamenti passiva", i.e. the right of being made heirs (Theodosian Code, XVI, II, lit. iv).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

‘métier’ and ‘ministère’; from ‘parabola’, ‘parole’ and ‘parabole’; from ‘peregrinus’, ‘pélerin’ and ‘pérégrin’; from ‘factio’, ‘façon’ and ‘faction’, and it has now adopted ‘factio’ in a third shape, that is, in our English ‘fashion’; from ‘pietas’, ‘pitié’ and

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

Sed haec inter bonos amicitia, inter malos factio est (Sall_.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

Quippe apud illos, una respublica erat; ei consulebant; factio, contra hostes parabatur; corpus atque ingenium, patriæ, non suæ, quisque potentiæ exercitabat. "

Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry 1817