seditionary

[ si-dish-uh-ner-ee ]

adjective

1. of or relating to sedition; seditious.

noun

, plural se·di·tion·ar·ies.

1. Also se·dition·ist. one guilty of sedition.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seditionary¹

First recorded in 1600–10; sedition + -ary

Example Sentences

With its puffy pink vinyl sign out front, seditionary manifestoes, rubber and leather fetish wear and T-shirts emblazoned with fragments of text from S&M novels, among other slogans, the store was also something not seen before.

From New York Times

If you inquire about it, they will tell you it was probably seditionary and destroyed by the sultan's orders.

From Project Gutenberg

As a matter of fact, even the most seditionary organs confessed that the tenants gained little and lost much by the change from the old type of landlord to the new, for the latter, being practical men, had no sympathy for the man who was permanently behindhand with his rent.

From Project Gutenberg

But there was nothing that should not be there, nothing that could be construed as seditionary in any sense of the word.

From Project Gutenberg

The attitude of the Ratnagiri hands must in my opinion have been engendered by continuous and careful tuition; and this was particularly the case in the Currey Road and Delisle Road areas where agents, belonging to their own native district, had been suborned by the seditionary party to stir up trouble.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• incendiary
• intemperate
• provocative