factious

• “Van Buren's opposition to the Adams administration has been called factious and unpatriotic.”

  A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3

• “A week later the papers published letters of Dumouriez which showed that ever since the trial of the King the Girondin general had been factious, that is, had been as much inclined to turn his arms against Paris as against the Austrians.”

  The French Revolution A Short History

• “For disgrace; he tells them, they would fare but ill as to their reputations, but yet no worse than himself: they might be called factious, seditious; but when the master is called devil, the servant may well endure the name of rascal.”

  Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.

• “They are loaded with invectives — they are called factious, seditious; as Elijah, the troubler of Israel; and”

  The Lord's Prayer

• “There were one or two measures introduced into the Assembly during the session just closed worth mentioning, _en passant_; as showing the progress really made by a "factious" Assembly.”

  The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1

• “Burke, in an evil moment for himself and for Ireland, had lent himself in 1785 to what Mr. Morley called the "factious" and”

  Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union

• “In proofreading I struck out "factious;" as needless, and as a generalization on insufficient premises.”

  From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life

• “At the dead of night we were aroused from our sleep by a cry that the 'factious' were not far off.”

  Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society

• “Terror now reigns in Rome; the prisons are choked with men who have been arrested and detained without trial; fifty priests are confined in the castle of St. Angelo, whose only crime consists in their having lent their services in our hospitals; the citizens, the best known for their moderation, are exiled; the army is almost entirely dissolved, the city disarmed, and the "factious" sent away even to the last man; and yet France dares not consult in legal manner the will of the populations, but re-establishes the papal authority by military decree.”

  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851

• “(except Kentucky and Missouri,) have never been even charged with this kind of factious commotion.”

  The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.

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