factionate

English

Etymology 1

From faction +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Verb

factionate (third-person singular simple present factionates, present participle factionating, simple past and past participle factionated)

1. Synonym of factionalize
   • 1969, Urban Education, page 75:

     However, the Council immediately began to factionate.

   • 1979, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Research and Development, Impact of SALT on U.S. Military Research and Development:

     I said I would feel more comfortable with a smaller ICBM on the U.S. side if I could be assured that the Soviet Union would not factionate beyond 10 reentry vehicles.

   • 1986, Leonard Bickman, David L. Weatherford, Evaluating early intervention programs for severely handicapped children and their families, page 320:

     They create situations that allow, even encourage, invidious social comparison, which tends to factionate people who might otherwise engage in fruitful social relationships.

Etymology 2

From faction +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

factionate (comparative more factionate, superlative most factionate)

1. Showing great loyalty to one's faction; tribal.
   • 1993, David Michael Brawn, Immanent domains: ways of living in Bone, Indonesia, page 49:

     They have gained this reputation by being intensely rivalrous and obsessively factionate, however, so the impression that the "placing" litany of questions is primarily incorporative in its intent is, I think, largely erroneous.