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
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
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