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Definition of Sedition

1. Noun. An illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government.

Definition of Sedition

1. n. 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.

Definition of Sedition

1. Noun. The organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state. ¹

2. Noun. insurrection or rebellion ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sedition

1. incitement of rebellion against a government [n -S]

Medical Definition of Sedition

1. 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. "In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition." (Shak) "Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition." (Macaulay) 2. Dissension; division; schism. "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . . Emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies." (Gal. V. 19, 20) Synonym: Insurrection, tumult, uproar, riot, rebellion, revolt. See Insurrection. Origin: OE. Sedicioun, OF. Sedition, F. Sedition, 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Sedition

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Free speech bibliography: including every discovered attitude toward the by Theodore Albert Schroeder (1922)
"sedition After 18oo and other than under Alien and sedition law. Everything hereunder covered in one alphabetical arrangement. Abbott, Lawrence Fraser ..."

2. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1880)
"Congress to provide for the common defense against ex- 1799. ternal enemies, and the sedition Law under the power necessarily implied to sustain the ..."

3. Select Documents Illustrative of the History of the United States, 1776-1861 by William MacDonald (1898)
"sedition Act July 14, 1798 JUNE 23, 1798, Senator Lloyd of Maryland gave notice of his intention to ask for leave to bring in a bill " to define more ..."

4. Utopia by Thomas More (1869)
"... of weke consciences, and wiih- out sedition, ... T Is accused of sedition in presence of the king, / 83. 1539. June x< He resigns his bishopric. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"By the Prison Act, 1877, any prisoner under sentence for sedition or seditious libel is to be ... la the Acts of Congress the word "sedition" appears to ..."

6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. by Edward Gibbon (1811)
"... productive of much sedition "plie sedition of Thessalonica is ascribed to a Thessalonica, AD 390. * The sedition of Antioch is represented in a lively, ..."

7. A Manual for Courts-martial, Courts of Inquiry and of Other Procedure Under by United States War Dept (1916)
"A single individual may harbor an intent to create a mutiny and may commit some overt act tending to create a mutiny or sedition and so be guilty of an ..."

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