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sedition|siːˈdɪʃən, sɪ-|
Forms: 4 sedici(o)un, seducioun, Sc. sedicione, seduccione, 5 cedicioun, 5–6 sedicion, 6 sedycyon, sedytyon, Sc. sediciounn, sedetione, 6– sedition.
[a. OF. sedition (mod.F. sédition), ad. L. sēditiōn-em, f. sēd- (see se-) + itiōn-em a going, n. of action f. īre to go. Cf. Sp. sedicion, Pg. sedição, It. sedizione.
The ME. spelling seducioun, seduccione are due to pseudoetymological association with L. sēdūcĕre seduce v.]
†1. Violent party strife; an instance of this, esp. a factious contest attended with rioting and disorder. Obs.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints ii. (Paulus) 163 Þe folk of rowme..Raisit in hym sedicione, and wald have brokyn his palace done. Ibid. v. (Johannes) 291 Al þa þat mad sacrifice til mawmentis..In þe puple (raisit) seduccione a-gane sancte Iohne. a1380S. Ambrose 113 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 10 Þei neore not alle in on red, Þer ros a gret sediciun Tofore þat ilke elecciun. 1382Wyclif Mark xv. 7 Barabas, that was boundan with sleeris of men, and that hadde don manslauȝtre in seducioun, that is, debaat in cytee. Ibid., Acts xxiv. 5 We han foundun this man..stiringe sedicioun, or dissencioun, to alle Jewis..and auctour of seducioun of the secte of Nazarens. 1402Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 56 Foure angels singnefien foure general synnes,..cediciouns, supersticions, the glotouns, and the proude. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys, Agnes 490 And wyth her wurdys a sedycyoun lo Among þe peple dede grow. c1477Caxton Jason 77 b, And some ther were couetous desiring their singuler prouffit accorded unto this sedicion. 1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 150/2 As though these men were Apostles now specially sent by god to preache heresyes and sow sedicion among christen men. 1536St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 356 For this cuntrey passith all that ever I sawe, for ministration of sedition and discorde. 1549Compl. Scot. ix. 78 Thair vas gryt sedition and discentione amang al the gryt personagis of grece. 1602Segar Honor, Mil. & Civ. iv. i. iii, When the Romanes were diuided, one faction labouring to oppresse another..such enimitie was called Sedition. 1628Hobbes Thucydides (1822) 87 But there would be thoughts of sedition in one towards another in the city.
2. a. A concerted movement to overthrow an established government; a revolt, rebellion, mutiny. Now rare.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxix. 150 Messenie..was giuen to reuolting & seditions. 1607–12Bacon Ess., Seditions (Arb.) 398 The matter of seditions is of two kindes, Much povertye and much discontent. 1689Locke Toleration 50 Seditions are very frequently raised, upon pretence of Religion. 1755Johnson, Sedition, a tumult; an insurrection; a popular commotion; an uproar. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlviii. V. 83 With the dawn of day the city burst into a general sedition. 1842Elphinstone Hist. India II. 65 The tribe had turned into a turbulent democracy..; a sedition had broken out about the property left by Kuttaul. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 327 By reason of inequality, cities are filled with seditions. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 620/1 In the Acts of Congress [of the United States] the word ‘sedition’ appears to occur only in the army and navy articles. A soldier joining any sedition or who, being present at any sedition, does not use his utmost endeavour to suppress the same is punishable with death.
b. Conduct or language inciting to rebellion against the constituted authority in a state.
1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. s.v., Sedition is distinguished from leasing-making, in this respect, that the object of leasing-making is to disparage or prejudice the private character of the Sovereign, whereas sedition is directed against the order and tranquility of the State. 1877Act. 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21 §40 [A] prisoner..on conviction for sedition or seditious libel shall be treated as a misdemeanant of the first division. 1883Stephen Hist. Crim. Law II. xxiv. 298 As for sedition itself I do not think that any such offence is known to English law. 1887Chamberlain Sp. 11 Oct. Sp. Irish Question (1890) 49 Loyalty in the House of Commons—Irish loyalty—is represented only by seventeen votes, and sedition, on the contrary, enjoys a majority of eighty-six votes.
attrib.1556Olde Antichrist 92 Murtherous sedicion sowers, and open churche robbers. 1801A. Hamilton Wks. (1886) VII. 193 As to the sedition law, we refer you to the debates in Congress. 1865Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 6/5 Native sedition-mongers. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 620/1 In 1798 an Act of Congress called the Sedition Act was passed, which expired by effluxion of time in 1801. 1898Westm. Gaz. 24 Jan. 9/3 A correspondent at Madras telegraphs to-day that a joint public meeting of Hindoos and Mohammedans was held there..to protest against the sedition law amendments. 1908Ibid. 28 July 9/1 The trial of some sedition-monger in India.
†3. Of inanimate things: Tumult, uproar. [After L. seditio; in quot. 1640 with allusion to sense 2.]
1640Habington Castara iii. 220 When the distracted Ocean Swells to Sedition, and obeyes no Law. 1671R. Bohun Wind 12 But what Seditions, Eddies and Undulations must this cause in the whole body of Air. |