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Traitorous :: Traitorous (a.) Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme..

Treachery :: Treachery (n.) Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.

Treason :: Treason (n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery..

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as, to punish murder or treason with death..

Lisp :: Lisp (v. t.) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason..

Treasonous :: Treasonous (a.) Treasonable.

Treason :: Treason (n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy..

Outreason :: Outreason (v. t.) To excel or surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.

Perduellion :: Perduellion (n.) Treason.

Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder..

Prodition :: Prodition (n.) Disclosure; treachery; treason.

Overt :: Overt (a.) Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason..

Abetment :: Abetment (n.) The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc..

Approvement :: Approvement (n.) a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States..

Inoculate :: Inoculate (v. t.) Fig.: To introduce into the mind; -- used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with treason or infidelity..

Conspiracy :: Conspiracy (n.) A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited..

Sedition :: Sedition (n.) The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority..

Treasonable :: Treasonable (a.) Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt..

Swear :: Swear (v. t.) To declare or charge upon oath; as, he swore treason against his friend..

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