Obs. Forms: 1 fácen, fácn, 2 facne, 3 Orm. fakenn. [OE. fácen = OS. fêkn, fêcan, OHG. feichan fraud, ON. feikn portent:—OTeut. *faikno-m.] Fraud, guile; wickedness, crime.
c. 924. Laws of Æthelstan, i. § 17. He ladiȝe þa hand mid þe man tyhð þæt he þæt facen mid worhte.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Matt. xxii. 18. Ða se Hælend hyra facn [c. 1160, Hatton, facne] ʓehyrde, þa cwæð he.
c. 1200. Ormin, 12797.
| An soþ Issraelisshe mann, | |
| Þatt niss na fakenn inne. |
