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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..

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

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

Treasonous :: Treasonous (a.) Treasonable.

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..

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

Traitor :: Traitor (n.) One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason..

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

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

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

Prattle :: Prattle (v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle 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..

Perduellion :: Perduellion (n.) Treason.

Appellant :: Appellant (n.) One who accuses another of felony or treason.

Conspire :: Conspire (v. i.) To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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