TRESPASS

trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation

(noun) entry to another’s property without right or permission

trespass

(noun) a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages

transgress, trespass, overstep

(verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries)

sin, transgress, trespass

(verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

trespass

(verb) break the law

trespass, intrude

(verb) enter unlawfully on someone’s property; “Don’t trespass on my land!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

trespass (countable and uncountable, plural trespasses)

(legal) An intentional interference with another's property or person.

(archaic) sin

Etymology 2

Verb

trespass (third-person singular simple present trespasses, present participle trespassing, simple past and past participle trespassed)

(intransitive, now rare) To commit an offence; to sin.

Synonym: transgress

(transitive, obsolete) To offend against, to wrong (someone).

(intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.

Synonym: cross the line

(legal) To enter someone else's property illegally.

(obsolete) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.

Synonyms: exceed, surpass, transcend

(transitive, ) To decree that a person shall be arrested for trespassing if he or she returns to someone else's land.

Anagrams

• pastress, sparsest

Source: Wiktionary

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Tres"pass, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trespassed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trespassing.] Etym: [OF. trespasser to go across or over, transgress, F. trépasser to die; pref. tres- (L. trans across, over) + passer to pass. See Pass, v. i., and cf. Transpass.]

1. To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go. [Obs.] Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce . . . trespassed out of this uncertain world. Ld. Berners.

2. (Law)

Definition: To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.

3. To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.

4. To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against. In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. 2 Chron. xxviii. 22.

Tres"pass, n. Etym: [OF. tr, F. trépas death. See Trespass, v.]

1. Any injury or offence done to another. I you forgive all wholly this trespass. Chaucer. If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matt. vi. 15.

2. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin. The fatal trespass done by Eve. Milton. You . . . who were dead in trespasses and sins. Eph. if. 1.

3. (Law) (a) An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another. (b) An action for injuries accompanied with force. Trespass offering (Jewish Antiq.), an offering in expiation of a trespass.

– Trespass on the case. (Law) See Action on the case, under Case.

Syn.

– Offense; breach; infringement; transgression; misdemeanor; misdeed.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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