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trespassed


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Trespass  \Tres"pass\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Trespassed};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Trespassing}.]  [{OF}.  trespasser  to  go  across  or 
  over  transgress,  F.  tr['e]passer  to  die;  pref.  tres-  (L. 
  trans  across  over)  +  passer  to  pass.  See  {Pass},  v.  i.,  and 
  cf  {Transpass}.] 
  1.  To  pass  beyond  a  limit  or  boundary;  hence  to  depart;  to 
  go  [Obs.] 
 
  Soon  after  this  noble  Robert  de  Bruce  .  .  . 
  trespassed  out  of  this  uncertain  world.  --Ld. 
  Berners 
 
  2.  (Law)  To  commit  a  trespass;  esp.,  to  enter  unlawfully  upon 
  the  land  of  another. 
 
  3.  To  go  too  far  to  put  any  one  to  inconvenience  by  demand 
  or  importunity;  to  intrude;  as  to  trespass  upon  the  time 
  or  patience  of  another. 
 
  4.  To  commit  any  offense,  or  to  do  any  act  that  injures  or 
  annoys  another;  to  violate  any  rule  of  rectitude,  to  the 
  injury  of  another;  hence  in  a  moral  sense  to  transgress 
  voluntarily  any  divine  law  or  command;  to  violate  any 
  known  rule  of  duty;  to  sin;  --  often  followed  by  against. 
 
  In  the  time  of  his  distress  did  he  trespass  yet  more 
  against  the  Lord.  --2  Chron. 
  xxviii.  22. 




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