The peninsula has this name because ancient Greeks, Romans and other mediterranean peoples first contacted with peoples (tribes or tribal confederacies) that were Iberians in the ethnic and linguistic sense, although the majority of the Iberian Peninsula's peoples, that dwelt in the Northern, Central and Western regions (the majority of the peninsula's area), were not Iberians themselves in the ethnic and linguistic sense (they could only be considered Iberians in the geographical sense, i.e ...
â¢ SEDITION (noun). The noun SEDITION has 1 sense: 1. an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government. Familiarity information: SEDITION used as a noun is very rare.
The raising commotions or disturbances in the state; it is a revolt against legitimate authority Ersk. Princ. Laws Scotl. b. 4 t. 4 s. 14; Dig. Lib. 49 t. 16 1. 3 19. 2. The distinction between sedition and treason consists in this that though its ultimate object is a violation of the public peace or at least such a course of measures as evidently engenders it yet it does not aim at direct and open violence against the laws or the subversion of the constitution. Alis.