The old elite worried that the masses were too improvident and seditious.
He had not written, but had dared to print, a seditious pamphlet which justified the right of rebellion against the king.
But conservatives think liberals and Balzac are seditious and crazy.
The judges pointed out to them the seditious libels on governors, magistrates, and the whole government to no effect.
Their modest petition had been treated as a seditious libel.
Nat Ponder, who 'did time' for publishing a seditious pamphlet, was Bunyan's publisher.
The seditious magistrates were arrested and thrown into prison.
It was offered as a voluntary boon, not as a concession to seditious clamour and agitation.
Indeed I do, but you spoke of seditious papers, and I have none of that sort.
Divers wicked and seditious writings had been dispersed throughout the province.
mid-15c., from Middle French seditieux, from Latin seditiosus "full of discord, factious, mutinous," from seditio (see sedition). Related: Seditiously; seditiousness.
