Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sedition

Sedition , noun

[Old English sedicioun, Old French sedition, French sédition, from Latin seditio, originally, a going aside; hence, an insurrectionary separation; pref. se-, sed-, aside + itio a going, from ire, itum, to go. Compare Issue.]

1.
The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. — Shakespeare
Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition. — Macaulay
2.
Dissension; division; schism. [Obsolete]
Now the works of the flesh are manifest,... emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies. — Gal. v. 19, 20