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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A combination of flowers or ornamental types of decoration, in imitation of the engraved head-bands of the early printers: a typographic fashion in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A large ornamental letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Abbreviation of facsimile.

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Examples

  • The passage is this; speaking of "eminent persons buried" at Waltham Abbey, he says: "we spoil all, if we forget Robert Passellew, who was _dominus fac totum_ in the middle -- and _fac nihil_ towards the end -- of the reign of Henry III."

    Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 Various

  • The next line creates a simple wrapper function to hide away the accumulator base value of int fac = (int n) = fac_.

    B# .NET Technical Community Homepage bart 2010

  • I know as a fac (and it pretty well shows the young genlmn's carryter), that he went that very day and ordered 2 new coats, on porpos to be introjuiced to the lords in.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • I know as a fac (and it pretty well shows the young genlmn’s carryter), that he went that very day and ordered 2 new coats, on porpos to be introjuiced to the lords in.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • F * éff fábulous * fábyələss façàde * fəsàd fâcelift one word facêtious * fəsêeshəss fácîle fáction

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • F * éff fábulous * fábyələss façàde * fəsàd fâcelift one word facêtious * fəsêeshəss fácîle fáction

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Some Scheme implementations accepts the more readable name fac depends on the implementation: some implementations support infinite precision numbers (this is required by the R6RS) but some implementations do not.

    Artima Weblogs 2008

  • To see this little seventy year old nun saying "fac" over and over again is ...

    hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2004

  • The Lord deals wi 'fac's nane the less' at they canna help bein 'teeps.

    Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

  • I was, during several years, a kind of fac-totum servant to a country clergyman, where I picked up a good many scraps of learning, particularly -- in some branches of the mathematics.

    The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

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