Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Trespass

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Trespass


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(1):

(v.) Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.

(2):

(v. i.) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against.

(3):

(v.) Any injury or offence done to another.

(4):

(v.) An action for injuries accompanied with force.

(5):

(v. i.) To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.

(6):

(v. i.) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.

(7):

(v.) An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.

(8):

(v. i.) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.