seditiously, adv.
(siːˈdɪʃəslɪ, sɪ-)
[-ly2]
In a seditious manner; so as to cause sedition.
| 1453 Rolls of Parlt. V. 265/1 The..Traitour John Cade..gaderyng to him youre people in grete nombre by..sediciously made commotion, rebellion and insurrection. a 1513 Fabyan Chron. vii. 187/1 Sedyciously the sayde Bysshop hadde by his Letters..wrongfully accused hym that he shuld areyse the kynges people. 1563 Foxe A. & M. 1185, I did nothyng sediciously, falsly, or arrogantly, in worde or facte. 1570 T. Norton Nowel's Catech. ii. 47 They..that seditiously stirre vp discorde in the Chirch of God. 1593 R. Bancroft Dang. Posit iv. xv. 183 To beware of such sectaries as..do thus seditiously endeauour to disturbe the land. 1623 Bingham Xenophon 106 In warre,..whosoeuer..behaueth himselfe seditiously against his Commander, behaueth himselfe seditiously against his owne safetie. 1689 Locke Toleration 53 If anything pass in a Religious Meeting seditiously, and contrary to the publick Peace, it is to be punished in the same manner. 1785 Burke Nabob of Arcot's Debts Wks. IV. 248 They had no lawful government, seditiously to overturn. |