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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 factiously
 (ad.)黨派性地;好亂地

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fac·tious a.
 1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons.
    Factious for the house of Lancaster.   --Shak.
 2. Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels.
    Headlong zeal or factious fury.   --Burke.
 -- Fac*tious*ly, adv. -- Fac*tious*ness, n.
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