seditious

  • 11seditious —   Kipi.    ♦ Seditious offenses, hewa ho ālaala kipi …

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  • 12seditious — sedition ► NOUN ▪ conduct or speech inciting rebellion against the authority of a state or monarch. DERIVATIVES seditious adjective seditiously adverb. ORIGIN Latin, from sed apart + itio going …

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  • 13Seditious libel — is a criminal offence under English common law. Sedition is the offence of speaking seditious words with seditious intent: if the statement is in writing or some other permanent form it is seditious libel. A statement is seditious if it brings… …

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  • 14seditious libel — Written or spoken words, pictures, signs, or other forms of communication that tend to defame, discredit, criticize, impugn, embarrass, challenge, or question the government, its policies, or its officials; speech that advocates the overthrow of… …

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  • 15Seditious Meetings Act 1795 — The Seditious Meetings Act, approved by the British Parliament in November 1795, was the second of the well known Two acts (also known as the Gagging Acts or the Grenville and Pitt Bills ), the other being the Treasonable Practices Act. Its… …

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  • 16Seditious Meetings Act 1817 — The Seditious Meetings Act of 1817 made it illegal to hold a meeting of more than 50 people.The act was passed by Lord Liverpool s government in March, 1817 in retaliation to the March of the Blanketeers in the same month. [ Access to History:… …

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  • 17seditious — adjective Date: 15th century 1. disposed to arouse or take part in or guilty of sedition 2. of, relating to, or tending toward sedition • seditiously adverb • seditiousness noun …

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  • 18seditious — seditiously, adv. seditiousness, n. /si dish euhs/, adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of sedition. 2. given to or guilty of sedition. [1400 50; late ME sedicious, equiv. to sedici(oun) SEDITION + ous OUS; cf. L seditiosus] * * * …

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  • 19seditious — adjective Of, related to, or being involved in sedition; treasonous or subversive …

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  • 20seditious — Synonyms and related words: alienated, breakaway, contumacious, disaffected, disloyal, dissident, extreme, extremistic, factious, faithless, inflammatory, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, lawless, mutineering, mutinous, perfidious,… …

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