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Trespassed

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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trespassed

vb. (en-past of: trespass)

Usage examples of "trespassed".

Then he said to his brother: Fair sweet brother, forgive me for God's love all that I have trespassed unto you.

Whereas what Sassinak had done, and Dupaynil was still convinced she had done it, made sense only in personal terms: he had trespassed on her hospitality.

We do realize that we have trespassed on your property, but we were brought here against our volition and cannot return to our own worlds.

Norman had smoked barely half his Bay Gold, not enough to elasticate time for him, but because he had trespassed to the edge of the subject above all others where people like himself preferred not to be too open, he could not continue, a fact of which Donald was well aware.

Sugaiguntung was growing annoyed, or he would never have trespassed so close to bragging.

Since Celerity is one of those from Higher Meru I cannot meet with him myself—unlike Earthma, he has not trespassed on my prerogatives.

The chandelier tinkled as a gust from outside trespassed into the sanctum.