Defn: Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine. Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or adjective involves in it a reference to an effect, in the way of causality, in the active voice on the immediate objects, and in the passive voice on the subject of such activity. This second object is called the factitive object. J. W. Gibbs.
FACTIVE
Fac"tive, a.
Defn: Making; having power to make. [Obs.] "You are . . . factive, not destructive." Bacon.
FACTO
Fac"to, adv. Etym: [L., ablative of factum deed, fact.] (Law)
Defn: In fact; by the act or fact. De facto. (Law) See De facto.
FACTOR
Fac"tor, n. Etym: [L. factor a doer: cf. F. facteur a factor. See
Fact.]
1. (Law)
Defn: One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker. Story. Wharton. My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled That owes me for a hundred tun of wine. Marlowe.
2. A steward or bailiff of an estate. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
3. (Math.)