insurrection, n.s. (1755) TEI coding Amy Giroux William Dorner TEI P5 Johnson's Dictionary Online Project
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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. <hi rend="italic">Jul. Cæsar.</hi> This city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. <hi rend="italic">Ezra.</hi> There shall be a great insurrection upon those that fear the Lord. 2 <hi rend="italic">Esd.</hi> xvi. 70. Insurrections of base people are commonly more furious in their beginnings. Bacon's <hi rend="italic">Henry</hi> VII. The trade of Rome had like to have suffered another great stroke by an insurrection in Egypt, excited by Achilleus. Arbuth.