单词 | seditious |
释义 | seditiousadj. 1. a. Of a person or body of persons: Given to or guilty of sedition; in early use, ‘factious with tumult, turbulent’ (Johnson); now chiefly, engaged in promoting disaffection or inciting to revolt against constituted authority. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] wildc1000 unthewedc1175 wanton?a1300 rabbisha1387 irregular1395 inordinate1398 unruly1400 misgoverned?a1425 misruled?a1425 misruly?a1425 unruleful1439 seditious1447 rulelessc1460 turbulous1527 undaunted1533 turbulent1538 unordinate1561 rowsey1565 misorderlya1568 disruly1570 rabbling1575 disorderous1579 irregulate1579 disorderly1585 break-dance1587 willyart?1590 unguided1600 inorderly1606 anarchial1609 irregulousa1616 unmasterlya1623 uncomposed1631 obstreperous1641 disriegled1657 ranting1658 rantipole1660 reuling1691 shandy1691 rumblegarie1722 randy1723 obstropolous1727 wanruly1773 polrumptious1787 ree-raw1800 rambunctious1830 roid1874 unordered1929 rogue1948 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [adjective] > specifically of persons unquietous?1545 seditious1596 mutinizing1830 1447 O. Bokenham Agnes in Lyvys Seyntys 508 Þe prefectys vyker, The sedycyous peple assentyng-to, Dede makyn anoon a ryht greth feer. 1447 O. Bokenham Agnes in Lyvys Seyntys 564. 1490 W. Caxton tr. 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.]. 1496 Patent Roll, 12 Hen. VII Pt. 2 By instigation of dyvers cedicious and ill-disposed persons. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. xvii. f. ix To which sedicious persones Morgan gyuynge credence..made warre vpon his sayd brother. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras iv. 12 That sedicious [Gk. ἀπόστατιν] & wicked cite. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Lv Thirdly, he is verie seditious and mutinous in conuersation, picking quarrells with euerie man that will not magnifie and applaud him. 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. E1v England was wont to harbour malcontents, Blood thirsty, and seditious Catelynes. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. i. 12. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 242 Seditious Ianizaries. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 152 Thou returnst From flight, seditious Angel, to receave Thy merited reward. View more context for this quotation 1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials 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. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. i, in Wks. (1851) I. 22 Reducing to obedience their seditious chieftain. 1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 12 Seditious hunks! to whine for want of grains. 1908 J. O. Dykes Christian Minister xi. 109 An illegal or possibly seditious club. 1909 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 498 The Coreans are wrathful and seditious in consequence..and little risings are anticipated. b. absol. Seditious persons. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > seditious person > collectively seditious1535 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. Contents xlv The punyshment of the sedicious. a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 65 The seditious in Northfolke were somewhat dangerous. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 73 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. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [adjective] seditious1455 factious1533 factiosea1573 tribunitious1600 incendiary1614 tumultuousa1617 tribunitian1637 seditionary1898 fomentary2013 1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 281/1 For the removyng and overthrawyng of the cedicious and fraudelent blaspheme and defaime untruly..leyed upon us. 1464 Coventry 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. 1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 15 Certeyn persones of evyll riotous and sedicious disposicions. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Civ I sowe sedycyous sedes of dyscorde and debates. 1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. i. f. ixv A defence..agaynst the malycyouse slaunder and..salsesome [read falsesome] sayes, in that sedycyouse boke. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lvv He had made sedicious sermons. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 725 In making complaintes of the misgovernment of the state, spreading seditious rumours, scattering libels abroade [etc.]. 1689 W. Popple tr. J. Locke Let. conc. Toleration 51 But there is one thing only which gathers People into Seditious Commotions, and that is Oppression. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 495 But if she has deform'd this earthly life With murderous rapine, and seditious strife. 1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials I. i. xxvii. 192 The Northern Clergy backward. Some of them taken up for seditious Preaching. 1796 Act 36 Geo. III c. 8 (title) An Act for the more effectually preventing Seditious Meetings and Assemblies. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. x. 257 To Charles..the menacing language and the tumultuous acts of the great leaders, appeared seditious. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 399 The disturbed state of the people arose..from seditious writings and discourses. 1883 J. F. Stephen Hist. Criminal 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1447 |
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