FACTS
Noun
facts
plural of fact
Source: Wiktionary
FACT
Fact, n. Etym: [L. factum, fr. facere to make or do. Cf. Feat,
Affair, Benefit, Defect, Fashion, and -fy.]
1. A doing, making, or preparing. [Obs.]
A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for
ladies. B. Jonson.
2. 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. Evelyn.
He who most excels in fact of arms. Milton.
3. Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest;
the fact is, he was beaten.
4. 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. De Foe.
This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true. Roger Long.
Note: TheTerm fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast
with low; as, attorney at low, and attorney in fact; issue in low,
and issue in fact. There is also a grand distinction between low and
fact with reference to the province of the judge and that of the
jury, the latter generally determining the fact, the former the low.
Burrill Bouvier. Accessary before, or after, the fact. See under
Accessary.
– Matter of fact, an actual occurrence; a verity; used adjectively:
of or pertaining to facts; prosaic; unimaginative; as, a matter-of-
fact narration.
Syn.
– Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence;
circumstance.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition