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facient

facient noun: one who does something; a doer; an agent.

Noun

facient (plural facients)

  1. (obsolete) One who does something; a doer; an agent.
    • The Fact is here confess'd : But is Sin in the Fact , or in the Mind of the Facient1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata
  2. One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
  3. A multiplier.

Forms of facient

pluralfacients

Origin of facient

From Latin faciens, facientis, present participle of facere (“do, make”).

Words formed from facient

Questions about facient

What does facient mean?
Facient means one who does something; a doer; an agent.
What part of speech is facient?
Facient is a noun.
What is the plural of facient?
The plural of facient is facients.

Words near facient in the dictionary

  1. facie
  2. faciend
  3. facienda
  4. faciends
  5. faciendum
  6. facient
  7. facients
  8. facies
  9. facies Hippocratica
  10. facil
  11. facile

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