TRESPASS

v any injury or offence done to another.

2. trespass ·v an action for injuries accompanied with force.

3. trespass ·vi to commit a trespass; ·esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.

4. trespass ·vi to pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.

5. trespass ·v any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.

6. trespass ·v an unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.

7. trespass ·vi 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.

8. trespass ·vi 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.