insurrectious

comparative more insurrectious · superlative most insurrectious

1. uncommonOf or relating to an insurrection.

   The Government attempted to build an Inter-Oceanic Railway in 1871; but the insurrectious condition of society caused the work to be dropped in 1873.

   1895, Walter, Government Ownership in Production and Distribution, page 127

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   In consequence of the Massachusetts insurrection, the Virginia legislature met for taking measures for the safety of the country, against British commercial dangers of the north, determined more firmly to consolidate us in union, against the insurrectious divisions which the tories had already got violently under way.

   1814, Simon Willard, Jun., The Columbian Union: consisting of General and Particular Explanations of Government, and the Columbian Constitution., page 326

   The first shot of the long expected Canton-Hainan war consequent on the quarrel between General Chen Chi-tang (who represents the military party ruling Canton) and Admiral Chen Cheh (the dismissed former head of the Canton Navy) was fired in the Inner Harbor of Macao early on Friday morning, June 17, following a bold attempt by 3,000 of General Chen Chi-tang's soldiers to capture four insurrectious gunboats, including the cruiser Chung-shan under the Admiral in the Chungshan district.

   1932, The China Weekly Review, number 61, page 167