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Matter of fact   /mˈætər əv fækt/   Listen
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Fact  n.  
1.
A doing, making, or preparing. (Obs.) "A project for the fact and vending Of a new kind of fucus, paint for ladies."
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." "He who most excels in fact of arms."
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." "This reasoning is founded upon a fact which is not true." Note: The term fact has in jurisprudence peculiar uses in contrast with law; as, attorney at law, and attorney in fact; issue in law, and issue in fact. There is also a grand distinction between law and fact with reference to the province of the judge and that of the jury, the latter generally determining the fact, the former the law.
Accessary before the fact, or Accessary 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.
Synonyms: Act; deed; performance; event; incident; occurrence; circumstance.


Matter  n.  
1.
That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment. "He is the matter of virtue."
2.
That of which the sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance. Note: Matter is usually divided by philosophical writers into three kinds or classes: solid, liquid, and gaseous. Solid substances are those whose parts firmly cohere and resist impression, as wood or stone. Liquids have free motion among their parts, and easily yield to impression, as water and wine. Gaseous substances are elastic fluids, called vapors and gases, as air and oxygen gas.
3.
That with regard to, or about which, anything takes place or is done; the thing aimed at, treated of, or treated; subject of action, discussion, consideration, feeling, complaint, legal action, or the like; theme. "If the matter should be tried by duel." "Son of God, Savior of men! Thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song." "Every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge."
4.
That which one has to treat, or with which one has to do; concern; affair; business. "To help the matter, the alchemists call in many vanities out of astrology." "Some young female seems to have carried matters so far, that she is ripe for asking advice."
5.
Affair worthy of account; thing of consequence; importance; significance; moment; chiefly in the phrases what matter? no matter, and the like. "A prophet some, and some a poet, cry; No matter which, so neither of them lie."
6.
Inducing cause or occasion, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble. "And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife."
7.
Amount; quantity; portion; space; often indefinite. "Away he goes,... a matter of seven miles." "I have thoughts to tarry a small matter." "No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before."
8.
Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.
9.
(Metaph.) That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; opposed to form.
10.
(Print.) Written manuscript, or anything to be set in type; copy; also, type set up and ready to be used, or which has been used, in printing.
Dead matter (Print.), type which has been used, or which is not to be used, in printing, and is ready for distribution.
Live matter (Print.), type set up, but not yet printed from.
Matter in bar, Matter of fact. See under Bar, and Fact.
Matter of record, anything recorded.
Upon the matter, or Upon the whole matter, considering the whole; taking all things into view; all things considered. "Waller, with Sir William Balfour, exceeded in horse, but were, upon the whole matter, equal in foot."





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... and a despot. Love of money gets a snatch at the sceptre as well as the rest, not by hereditary right, but because, in the fluctuations of human feelings, a chance wave washes him up to the throne, and the next perhaps washes him off without time to nominate his successor. Since, then, as a matter of fact, a host of appetites and passions do hourly get the better of love of money, what protection does the slave find in his master's interest, against the sweep of his passions and appetites? Besides, a master can inflict upon his slave horrible cruelties without perceptibly injuring ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
... without a second, not the theistic idea of one personal God; but what we are concerned with is, that it was in the monotheistic sense that Rammohan Roy adopted the term. To him Brahm[a] was a personal God, with whom men spoke in prayer and praise. As a matter of fact the pantheistic formula, "One only, no second," occurs in the creeds of all three new monotheistic bodies, Br[a]hmas, Pr[a]rthan[a] Sam[a]jists, and [A]ryas, but in the same monotheistic sense. The original Sanscrit of the formula (Ekam eva advityam), three words ...
— New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century - A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments • John Morrison
... habits of thought and action had been cast in a different mould. It is ordinarily assumed that he was a born financier, endowed besides with a gift of idealism and the fine training of a scholar. As matter of fact, it was the other way; he was a man of high practical and moral imagination, with an understanding made accurate by strength of grasp and incomparable power of rapid and concentrated apprehension, yoked ...
— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley
... inquiry is not yet over," Nikolay Parfenovitch faltered, somewhat embarrassed. "We will continue it in the town, and I, for my part, of course, am ready to wish you all success ... in your defense.... As a matter of fact, Dmitri Fyodorovitch, I've always been disposed to regard you as, so to speak, more unfortunate than guilty. All of us here, if I may make bold to speak for all, we are all ready to recognize that you are, at bottom, ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... our flesh," replied Ja; "it is merely that we are warm-blooded animals. They would not think of eating the meat of a thag, which we consider such a delicacy, any more than I would think of eating a snake. As a matter of fact it is difficult to explain just why this sentiment should ...
— At the Earth's Core • Edgar Rice Burroughs


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