Sedition

n.	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. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . . emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies. - Gal. v. 19, 20.

Noun

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sedition - an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government

SEDITION, crimes. The raising commotions or disturbances in the state; it is a revolt against legitimate authority, Ersk. Princ. Laws, Scotl. b. 4, t. 4, s. 14; Dig. Lib. 49, t. 16, 1. 3, Sec. 19.
     2. The distinction between sedition and treason consists in this, that though its ultimate object is a violation of the public peace, or at least such a course of measures as evidently engenders it, yet it does not aim at direct and open violence against the laws, or the subversion of the constitution. Alis. Crim. Law of Scotl. 580.
     3. The. obnoxious and obsolete act of July 14, 1798, 1 Story's Laws U. S. 543, was called the sedition law, because its professed object was to prevent disturbances.
     4. In the Scotch law, sedition is either verbal or real. Verbal is inferred from the uttering of words tending to create discord between the king and his people; real sedition is generally committed by convocating together any considerable number of people, without lawful authority, under the pretence of redressing some public grievance, to the disturbing of the public peace. 1 Ersk. ut supra.

action, agitation, alienation, collaboration, coup, disaffection, estrangement, extremism, factiousness, fifth-column activity, fomentation, fraternization, high treason, instigation, insurgence, insurgency, insurgentism, insurrection, insurrectionism, lese majesty, misprision of treason, mutinousness, mutiny, petty treason, protest, putsch, quislingism, rabble-rousing, rebellion, rebelliousness, revolt, revolution, riotousness, seditiousness, stirring up, strike, subversiveness, traitorousness, treachery, treason, treasonableness, uprising, whipping up