seditious

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SEDI''TIOUS, adjective. [Latin seditiosus.] 1. Pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of sedition; as seditious behavior; seditious strife. 2. Tending to excite sedition; as seditious words. 3. Disposed to excite violent or irregular opposition to law or lawful authority; turbulent; factious, or guilty of sedition; as seditious citizens.
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