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HOME | Definition of seditious (SEDITIOUS, Seditious)


    Seditious \Se*di"tious\, a.[L. seditiosus: cf. F. s['e]ditieux.]
    1. Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of,
    or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior;
    seditious strife; seditious words.
    [1913 Webster]

    2. Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to
    lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition;
    as, seditious citizens.
    [1913 Webster] --

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    seditious
    adj 1: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive,
    inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing]
    2: in opposition to a civil authority or government [syn: insurgent,
    subversive]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    34 Moby Thesaurus words for "seditious":
    alienated, breakaway, contumacious, disaffected, disloyal,
    dissident, extreme, extremistic, factious, faithless, inflammatory,
    insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, lawless, mutineering,
    mutinous, perfidious, rabble-rousing, rebel, rebellious,
    refractory, revolutional, revolutionary, riotous, seditionary,
    subversive, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, turbulent,
    turncoat, unfaithful, violent

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0




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