insurrection, n.s. (1755)
Insurre'ction.
n.s.
[insurgo, Latin.]
A seditious rising; a rebellious commotion.
Between the acting of a dreadful thing,
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:
The genius and the mortal instruments
Are then in council; and the state of man,
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
The nature of an insurrection.
Shak.
Jul. Cæsar.
This city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
Ezra.
There shall be a great insurrection upon those that fear the Lord.
2 Esd.
xvi. 70.
Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings.
Bacon's
Henry VII.
The trade of Rome had like to have suffered another great stroke by an insurrection in Egypt, excited by Achilleus.
Arbuth.