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perduellion Rom. and Sc. Law.|pɜːdjuːˈɛlɪən| [ad. L. perduelliōn-em, f. perduellis: see prec.] Hostility against the state or government; treason. (Obs. in Sc. Law.)
1533Bellenden Livy i. x. (S.T.S.) 60 This law of perduellioun was of maist horribil cryme. 1693Apol. Clergy Scot. 61 On the 13th of October 1582, the Assembly of the Church at Edenburg, did by an Act approve of that perduellion [the Capture of the King]. 1774S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Law (1795) 130 The punishment of Perduellion was 1. Ultimum Supplicium, or Natural Death of the Criminal. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xii, I am of opinion..that this rising..to take away the life of a reprieved man, will prove little better than perduellion. So † perˈduellism [a. Fr. perduellisme ‘Treason against Prince or Countrey’ (Cotgr.)].
1656Blount Glossogr., Perduellion, or Perduellism, treason against the King or Country. |