pardon any redundancy....or don't.
An
agreement, communication, or other preliminary activity aimed at inciting
treason or some lesser commotion against public
authority; advocacy aimed at inciting or producing - and likely to incite or produce -
imminent lawless action. *At common-law, sedition included defaming a member of the royal family or the government. The difference between
sedition and
treason is that the former is committed by preliminary steps, while the latter entails some overt act for carrying out the plan. But of course, if the
plan is merely for some small commition, even accomplishing the plan does not amount to treason. -
seditious, adj. Cf.
TREASON.