sedition

se·di·tion

noun \si-ˈdi-shən\

Definition of SEDITION

: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority

Examples of SEDITION

1. The leaders of the group have been arrested and charged with sedition.

Origin of SEDITION

Middle English sedicioun, from Anglo-French sediciun, from Latin sedition-, seditio, literally, separation, from sed-, se- apart + ition-, itio act of going, from ire to go — more at secede, issue

First Known Use: 14th century

Other Legal Terms

actionable, alienable, carceral, chattel, complicity, decedent, larceny, malfeasance, modus operandi

Rhymes with SEDITION

addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, edition, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, perdition, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, rendition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition