SEDITION
sedition
(noun) an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sedition (countable and uncountable, plural seditions)
Organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state, usually by speech or writing.
Insurrection or rebellion.
Anagrams
• desition, editions, noetiids, tineoids
Source: Wiktionary
Se*di"tion, n. Etym: [OE. sedicioun, OF. sedition, F. sédition, fr.
L. seditio, originally, a going aside; hence, an insurrectionary
separation; pref. se-, sed-, aside + itio a going, fr. ire, itum, to
go. Cf. Issue.]
1. The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to
insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act;
excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to
lawful authority.
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of
rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak.
Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition. Macaulay.
2. Dissension; division; schism. [Obs.]
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . . emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies. Gal. v. 19, 20.
Syn.
– Insurrection; tumult; uproar; riot; rebellion; revolt. See
Insurrection.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition