Fact
n.
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A doing, making, or preparing. [Obs.]
A project for the fact and vending
Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies.
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An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.
What might instigate him to this devilish fact, I am not able to conjecture.
He who most excels in fact of arms.
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Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.
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The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.
I do not grant the fact.
This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true.
Phrases & Compounds
- Accessary before the fact
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See under Accessary.
- Matter of fact
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an actual occurrence; a verity; used adjectively: of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative; as, a matter-of-fact narration.