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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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. [Obs.]
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . .
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies.
--Gal. v. 19,
20.
Syn: Insurrection; tumult; uproar; riot; rebellion; revolt.
See {Insurrection}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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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