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trespassed |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Trespass \Tres"pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trespassed}; p. pr & vb n. {Trespassing}.] [{OF}. trespasser to go across or over transgress, F. tr['e]passer to die; pref. tres- (L. trans across over) + passer to pass. See {Pass}, v. i., and cf {Transpass}.] 1. To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence to depart; to go [Obs.] Soon after this noble Robert de Bruce . . . trespassed out of this uncertain world. --Ld. Berners 2. (Law) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another. 3. To go too far to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as to trespass upon the time or patience of another. 4. To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence in a moral sense to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against. In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. --2 Chron. xxviii. 22.
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