Trespass

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·v Any injury or offence done to another.

II. Trespass ·v An action for injuries accompanied with force.

III. Trespass ·vi To commit a trespass; ·esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.

IV. Trespass ·vi To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to Go.

V. Trespass ·v Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.

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

VII. Trespass ·vi 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.

VIII. Trespass ·vi 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.

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