factorage (faktoraj)

[F. factorage = Sp. factoraje; as factor + -age.] 1. The allowance given to a factor by his employer as compensation for his services. Also called commi ion. He put £1000 into Dudley's hands to trade for him, to the end that his brother Montague might have the benefit of the factorage . Roger North , Lord Guilford, II. 292. IMG:content-1008.png:[blocks in formation] Fx , F ( x +1), F ( x +2), F ( x +3),... F ( x + n ), in which every factor after the first is derived from the preceding by increasing the variable by unity. factorize (fak'to-riz), v. t.; pret. and pp. factor ized, ppr. factorizing. [ My own care and my rich master's trust Lay their commands both on my factorship . Middle ton, Women Beware Women, i. 1. factory (fak'to-ri), n.; pl. factories (-riz). [= D. factorij = G. factorei = Dan. Sw. faktori, At this River we were met by several of the French Merchants from Sidon: they having a Factory there the most considerable of all theirs in the Levant. Maundrell , Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 44. Even in India, during the seventeenth century, she [England) can hardly be said to have got beyond the fac tory stage. The East India company were simply leaseholders of the native princes. Science, VII. 475. faculty of tot us, all, the whole.] One who does everything; specifically, one who is called upon or employed to do all kinds of work for another. He was so farre the dominus fac totum in this juncto that his words were laws, all things being acted according to his desire. Foulis , Plots of Pretended Saints (2d. ed., 1674). He could not sail without him; for what could he do without Corporal Van spitter, his protection, his factotum , his distributer of provisions? Marryat , Snarleyyow, xiii. factre , n. See factor e . factual (faktū-al), a . [ fact + -u - al ; improp. formed, after analogy of actual .] Of the na ture of fact; consisting of or attentive to facts; real; genuine; scrupulously exact. [Rare.] If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education. H. W. Beecher , Royal Truths.