[ noun ] organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another <noun.act>
Insurrection \In`sur*rec"tion\, n. [L. insurrectio, fr. insurgere, insurrectum: cf. F. insurrection. See {Insurgent}.] 1. A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state.
It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. --Ezra iv. 19.
Usage: Sedition is the raising of commotion in a state, as by conspiracy, without aiming at open violence against the laws. Insurrection is a rising of individuals to prevent the execution of law by force of arms. Revolt is a casting off the authority of a government, with a view to put it down by force, or to substitute one ruler for another. Rebellion is an extended insurrection and revolt. Mutiny is an insurrection on a small scale, as a mutiny of a regiment, or of a ship's crew.
I say again, In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. --Shak.
Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings. --Bacon.
He was greatly strengthened, and the enemy as much enfeebled, by daily revolts. --Sir W. Raleigh.
Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial, blotted out and razed By their rebellion from the books of life. --Milton.
The insurrection was the first in Argentina since Menem took office in July 1989.
Since the Tamil insurrection began in 1983, both sides have used heavy firepower and civilian casualties have been high.
There is so little faith in declarations of policy from Washington that it is even doubted whether in fact the U.S. is not indirectly assisting the insurrection and will not make some attempt to remove Saddam, which it will probably bungle.
The Tamil insurrection grew out of a desire for a separate homeland, which militants said was needed to preserve the Tamil ethnic identity.
He didn't propose any detailed aid plans for the two nations, but he called the Philippines a "heroic democracy ravaged by communist-led insurrection" and Afghanistan "a victim of brutal aggression."
The armed forces insists it quelled an armed insurrection by using the same tactics as guerrillas.
For instance, they could again begin focusing attention on Iraq's treatment of its Kurds in the north, who have been suffering under a months-long economic blockade imposed by Baghdad in an effort to squelch unrest and insurrection.
But if they were to appear capable of thwarting the elections he proposes, let alone of starting an armed insurrection, he would have to prevent them.
The December insurrection began after officers at several army bases, including La Tablada, tried to incite troops.
He returned to Hanoi in 1945 and was instrumental in founding the Viet Minh, the Communist insurrection group.
A leader of the Philippine coup attempt said U.S. military intervention was all that had kept President Corazon Aquino's government from toppling and vowed to continue the insurrection, in an interview published Sunday.
While denying that Tuesday's failed insurrection was "some American operation," Bush had all but invited a coup.
At least 9,000 people have been killed in the Tamil insurrection.
The others, including nearly 1,000 Indian soldiers, died in the Tamil insurrection.
The "Brezhnev Doctrine" permits military intervention in a Soviet bloc country in the event of a liberal insurrection.
In 1831, former slave Nat Turner, who had led a violent insurrection, was executed in Jerusalem, Va.
In 1861, President Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops.
He also accused Syria of undermining the insurrection by sponsoring attacks by PLO dissident factions on Beirut refugee camps held by Arafat loyalists, PLO officials reported.
The Ministry of Defense, anticipating a possible fourth insurrection against the government in the past 21 months, bolstered defenses at Government House and the official residence of President Raul Alfonsin, Telam said.
The debate marked the first full-fledged council discussion of Afghanistan since January 1980, right after Soviet troops intervened in Afghanistan, replacing one Marxist government with another and staying on to help fight a Moslem insurrection.
Explaining why he hasn't supported forces opposing that country's regime as he has backed "freedom fighters" elsewhere, Mr. Reagan said there isn't an armed insurrection in South Africa and that government opponents are divided.
Also on Tuesday, a peace commission in Bogota began work toward a general cease-fire to the insurrection, which has claimed 76,000 lives in the past 76 years.
Only one other settler besides Levinger has been sentenced to jail since the insurrection began in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The front vowed to kill anyone who supported the government's attempts to end an insurrection by members of the Tamil ethnic minority.
But Panamanian Vice President Ricardo Arias Calderon said he was unaware that the calls were encoded to hide a plot for insurrection.
Discontent in Nicaragua, however, hasn't yet boiled over into insurrection.
Turkey is fighting rebels who use drugs to finance insurrection.
"That doesn't mean we go around supporting armed insurrection everywhere, but we promote" freedom, he said. "That's what we stand for.
A diary left by former Transport Minister Don Jamieson, who died in 1986, said two days after Trudeau acted, the Cabinet was told police had no evidence of an insurrection _ no firearms, ammunition or explosives.
In turn, the Sri Lankans told Pant the Indian troops should take stronger steps to crush the Tamil insurrection in the north and east of the island.