Definition of Sedition

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

Generic synonyms: Infraction, Infringement, Misdemeanor, Misdemeanour, Violation
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Seditious, Seditious

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. 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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