c1710 Light to Blind f. 626, in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 142 The factioneers must have their will.

1732 C. Wogan Let. to Swift 27 Feb. in J. Swift Wks. (1814) XVIII. 49 He [sc. Charles II] found himself obliged to..turn cabbalist and factioneer.

1806 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 139 Appoint a factioneer by any other voice than the people's, and he is ruined.

1882 Truth 5 Jan. 61/2 A very noble and beautiful type of the reformer and the factioneer.

1931 C. H. Wooddy Case of Frank L. Smith iii. 83 He continued throughout to keep a close eye on local patronage and on the manipulations of the factioneers in his own and neighboring communities.

2002 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 3 Jan. (Business section) 3 Your fellow factioneers may sound suspiciously like a group of 14-year-old boys.

1952 Ammunition (United Automobile, Aircraft, & Agric. Implement Workers Amer.) Jan. 18/2 And, who, to stay in power, factioneered almost continuously.

1841 Times 28 May 5/4 Under the factioneering influence of a mean discarded Administration which sought to crush him.

1881 Glasgow News 22 Mar. The dupe of factioneering dogmatism.

1912 H. Begbie Lady Next Door Pref. 12 Neither of these two books—this is interesting and full of encouragement for the bored reader of political speeches and factioneering pamphlets—would make use of arguments employed by the rival protagonists of Irish politics.