Faction

[jester at PANIX.COM]

>
> The use of "faction" as a verb is new to me.  Rather than suggest it is
> an error, which would place me in the prescriptive camp (!), I wonder
> whether others, who study usage more than I do, have noted this use
> (perhaps similar to impact and access, which are now regularly used as verbs.

Well, the OED records it from the mid-seventeenth century. Not too
common then, but it's there.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED