Found 3 items, similar to Sedition.
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Definition: sedition
sedition
n : an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority
and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the
government
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Definition: Sedition
Sedition
\Se*di"tion\, n. [OE. sedicioun, OF. sedition, F.
s['e]dition, fr. L. seditio, originally, a going aside;
hence, an insurrectionary separation; pref. se-, sed-, aside
+ itio a going, fr. ire, itum, to go. Cf.
Issue.]
1. The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to
insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an
overt act; excitement of discontent against the
government, or of resistance to lawful authority.
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In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate
The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition.
--Shak.
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Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition.
--Macaulay.
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2. Dissension; division; schism. [Obs.]
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Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . .
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies.
--Gal. v. 19,
20.
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Syn: Insurrection; tumult; uproar; riot; rebellion; revolt.
See
Insurrection.
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