Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trespassing"

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

trespassing
adj : gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we moved
back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists";
"trespassing hunters" [syn: {encroaching(a)}, {invasive},
{trespassing(a)}]


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