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1. A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state. It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion

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1. A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state. It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. Ezra iv. 19. 2. A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. Syn. -- Insurrection, Sedition, Revolt, Rebellion, Mutiny. Sedition is the raising of commotion in a state, as by conspiracy, without aiming at open violence against the laws. Insurrection is a rising of individuals to prevent the execution of law by force of arms. Revolt is a casting off the authority of a government, with a view to put it down by force, or to substitute one ruler for another. Rebellion is an extended insurrection and revolt. Mutiny is an insurrection on a small scale, as a mutiny of a regiment, or of a ship's crew. I say again, In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings. Bacon. He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts. Sir W. Raleigh. Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial, blotted out and razed By their rebellion from the books of life. Milton.

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  • RIS
    A bough or branch; a twig. As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer.
  • RISIBLE
    1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible. Dr. H. More. 2. Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing. "Risible absurdities."
  • SEDITION
    L. seditio, originally, a going aside; hence, an insurrectionary separation; pref. se-, sed-, aside + itio a going, fr. ire, itum, to 1. The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without
  • RISQUE; RISQUEE
    Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin.
  • INSUBORDINATION
    The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
  • MUTINY
    mutiner, fr. F. mutin stubborn, mutinous, fr. OF. meute riot, LL. 1. Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior
  • RIST
    3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth. Chaucer.
  • INSURRECTIONIST
    One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent.
  • RISEN
    1. p. p. & a. from Rise. "Her risen Son and Lord." Keble. 2. Obs. imp. pl. of Rise. Chaucer.
  • OUTBREAK
    A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.
  • REBELLION
    Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a 1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes
  • TREASONABLE
    Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon. Syn. -- Treacherous; traitorous;
  • SECESSIONISM
    The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.
  • INSURRECTIONAL
    Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection.
  • REVOLT
    Etym: 1. To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free.
  • TUMULTER
    A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton.
  • SECESSION
    The withdrawal of a State from the national Union. Secession Church . See Seceder. (more info) 1. The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.
  • OUTBURST
    A bursting forth.
  • TUMULTUARILY
    In a tumultuary manner.
  • TUMULTUARINESS
    The quality or state of being tumultuary.
  • HORRISONOUS
    Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
  • ENTERPRISER
    One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
  • TRISYLLABIC; TRISYLLABICAL
    Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. -- Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • GRISLY
    Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible,
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • GRISTMILL
    A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
  • SPAGYRIST
    1. A chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits. 2. One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit.
  • LUTHERANISM; LUTHERISM
    The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church.
  • METAPHORIST
    One who makes metaphors.
  • ARTILLERIST
    A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.
  • TANTRISM
    The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist , n.
  • IMPARISYLLABIC
    Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis.
  • PERISTALSIS
    Peristaltic contraction or action.
  • PURISM
    Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly
  • REBULLITION
    The act of boiling up or effervescing. Sir H. Wotton.
  • PORISMATIC; PORISMATICAL
    Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic.
  • PANDARISM
    See SWIFT
  • GRIST
    1. Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces. Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tusser. Q. 2. Supply; provision. Swift. 3. In rope making, a given size
  • NATURISM
    The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.

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