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Trespass   /trˈɛspˌæs/  /trˈɛspəs/   Listen
noun
Trespass  n.  
1.
Any injury or offence done to another. "I you forgive all wholly this trespass." "If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
2.
Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin. "The fatal trespass done by Eve." "You... who were dead in trespasses and sins."
3.
(Law)
(a)
An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.
(b)
An action for injuries accompanied with force.
Trespass offering (Jewish Antiq.), an offering in expiation of a trespass.
Trespass on the case. (Law) See Action on the case, under Case.
Synonyms: Offense; breach; infringement; transgression; misdemeanor; misdeed.


verb
Trespass  v. i.  (past & past part. trespassed; pres. part. trespassing)  
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."
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."





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... classify and draw from them their legitimate conclusions; and though I am loth that what has been collected with some pains, should be entirely thrown away, it is unwillingly, and with diffidence, that I trespass beyond the acknowledged province of ...
— The Mabinogion • Lady Charlotte Guest
... this room of an evening, and seen your husband come in, ma'am, with his battered hat nigh falling off the back of his head, and stuffed with papers that won't go into his pockets, and god-darning some rascal who'd done him about an assignment or a trespass, I can't think he's going up there into ...
— Abraham Lincoln • John Drinkwater
... races in point of temperament. They are reflected in man's religion and his literature, in his modes of thought and figures of speech. Blackstone states that "in the Isle of Man, to take away a horse or ox was no felony, but a trespass, because of the difficulty in that little territory to conceal them or to carry them off; but to steal a pig or a fowl, which is easily done, was a capital misdemeanour, and the offender punished with death." The judges ...
— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple
... anonymous writing of any kind, I shall not consider myself bound to notice. Should the dreaded disease spread its ravages throughout our population, I may then, at some future early opportunity, trusting to your indulgence, trespass again upon your columns with further communications on this ...
— Letters on the Cholera Morbus. • James Gillkrest
... common fine and amercement of the whole county in Eyre of the justices for false judgments, or for other trespass, is unjustly assessed by sheriffs and baretors in the shires, * * it is provided, and the king wills, that frown henceforth such sums shall be assessed before the justices in Eyre, afore their departure, by the oath of knights and other honest ...
— An Essay on the Trial By Jury • Lysander Spooner


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