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What is a sedition?

What is a sedition? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state, usually by speech or writing.
  2. Insurrection or rebellion.
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In the days after the riots, police spies were out in force, creeping through the capital with their ears open for sedition.
These varied from the trials and subsequent execution of radicals for treason, to trials for sedition and seditious libel.
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?
The aspect of sedition that deals with inciting violence and lawlessness is more appropriately part of public order law.
On December 18, 1792 Thomas Paine was tried in absentia in England for sedition, and convicted.
This law defined abolitionist petitions as agents of sedition and violent insurrection.

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