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.
sedation (sedÄÂ´shÉn), n the production of a sedative effect; the act or process of calming. sedation, conscious, n a condition induced by drugs or other means in which the patient retains a minimum level of consciousness while continuing to breathe on his or her own and to respond to verbal and physical prompts.