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seditious, a.|siːˈdɪʃəs, sɪ-|
Forms: 5 sedi-, sedycious, seducious, cedicious (ceducious), 6 sedycyous(e, sediciouse, -tiouse, seditius (sedicius, Sc. sedetiose), 5– seditious.
[ad. OF. seditieux, -euse (mod.F. sé-), ad. L. sēditiōsus, f. sēditiōnem: see sedition and -ous.]
1. Of a person or body of persons: Given to or guilty of sedition; in early use, ‘factious with tumult, turbulent’ (J.); now chiefly, engaged in promoting disaffection or inciting to revolt against constituted authority.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys, Agnes 508 Þe prefectys vyker, The sedycyous peple assentyng-to, Dede makyn anoon a ryht greth feer. Ibid. 564. 1490 Caxton Eneydos xviii. 66 O ryght dere eneas, sedycious & ryght cruel, how haste thou had the herte so vntrue, to thynke so grete a treson [etc.]. 1496Patent Roll, 12 Hen. VII, Pt. 2 By instigation of dyvers cedicious and ill-disposed persons. a1513Fabyan Chron. i. (1533) 8 b/2 To which sedycyous persons Margan gyuynge credence,..made warre vpon his sayde brother. 1535Coverdale i Esdras iv. 12 That sedicious [Gr. ἀπόστατιν] & wicked cite. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. i. i. 12. 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden L 1 b, Thirdly, he is verie seditious and mutinous in conuersation, picking quarrells with euerie man that will not magnifie and applaud him. 1596Edw. III, iii. i, England was wont to harbour malcontents, Blood thirsty and seditious Catelynes. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 242 Seditious Ianizaries. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 152 Thou returnst From flight, seditious Angel, to receave Thy merited reward. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. I. i. xxiii. 171 So one said,..when one asked him, how he liked Latimer's Sermon before King Edward; Even as I liked him always. A seditious Fellow. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. i. Wks. 1851 I. 22 Reducing to obedience their seditious chieftain. 1820Shelley Œd. Tyr. i. 82 Seditious hunks! to whine for want of grains. 1908J. O. Dykes Chr. Minister xi. 109 An illegal or possibly seditious club. 1909Contemp. Rev. Oct. 498 The Coreans are wrathful and seditious in consequence..and little risings are anticipated.
Comb.1653R. Sanders Physiogr. 197 A turbulent, seditious-spirited person.
b. absol. Seditious persons.
1535Coverdale Ecclus. Contents xlv, The punyshment of the sedicious. a1627Hayward Edw. VI (1630) 65 The seditious in Northfolke were somewhat dangerous. 1796Burke Late St. Nat. Wks. II. 159 Nothing,..but the sending a very strong military, backed by a very strong naval force, would reduce the seditious to obedience.
2. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of sedition; tending to incite to or provoke sedition.
1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 281/1 For the removyng and overthrawyng of the cedicious and fraudelent blaspheme and defaime untruly..leyed upon us. 1464Coventry Leet-bk. 330 The seid Will. Huet..had then right vnfyttyng, inordinate & ceducious langage sownyng to the derogacion of the kynges lawes & of his peace. 1491Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 15 Certeyn persones of evyll riotous and sedicious disposicions. c1520Skelton Magnyf. 737, I sowe sedycyous sedes of Dyscorde and debates. 1533More Debell. Salem Wks. 932/1 A defence..against y⊇ maliciouse slaunder and..false some sayes in that sediciouse boke. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 55 b, He had made sedicious sermons. 1610Holland Camden's Britannia i. 725 In making complaintes of the misgovernment of the state, spreading seditious rumours, scattering libels abroad [etc.]. 1689Locke Toleration 51 But there is one thing only which gathers People into Seditious Commotions, and that is Oppression. 1718Prior Solomon iii. 608 But if she has deform'd this earthly life With murderous rapine, and seditious strife. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. I. i. xxvii. 192 The Northern Clergy backward. Some of them taken up for seditious Preaching. 1796Act 36 Geo. III, c. 8 (title), An Act for the more effectually preventing Seditious Meetings and Assemblies. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, II. x. 257 To Charles..the menacing language and the tumultuous acts of the great leaders, appeared seditious. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 399 The disturbed state of the people arose..from seditious writings and discourses. 1883Stephen Hist. Crim. Law xxiv. 298 The second class of offences against internal public tranquility consists of offences not accompanied by or leading to open violence. They may be classified under the general head of seditious offences, and more particularly as seditious words, seditious libels, and seditious conspiracies. All those offences presuppose dissatisfaction with the existing government. |