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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trespass \Tres"pass\, noun [OF. trespas, F. tr['e]pas death. See {Trespass}, v.]
1. Any injury or offence done to another.
I you forgive all wholly this trespass. --Chaucer.
If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. --Matt. vi. 15.
2. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.
The fatal trespass done by Eve. --Milton.
You . . . who were dead in trespasses and sins. --Eph. if. 1.
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}.
Syn: Offense; breach; infringement; transgression; misdemeanor; misdeed.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trespass \Tres"pass\, verb (used without an object) [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}, verb (used without an object), 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) 2.0 [wn]:
trespass
noun
1: a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages
2: entry to another's property without right or permission [syn: {encroachment}, {violation}, {intrusion}, {usurpation}]
verb
1: enter unlawfully on someone's property; "Don't trespass on my land!" [syn: {intrude}]
2: make excessive use of; "You are taking advantage of my good will!"; "She is trespassing upon my privacy" [syn: {take advantage}]
3: break the law
4: commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law [syn: {sin}, {transgress}]
5: pass beyond (limits or boundaries) [syn: {transgress}, {overstep}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
194 Moby Thesaurus words for "trespass": adopt, adoption, advance upon, appropriate, appropriation, arrogate, arrogation, assume, assumption, atrocity, bad faith, barge in, breach, breach of contract, breach of faith, breach of law, breach of privilege, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach the law, break, break bounds, break in, break in upon, break the law, breaking, burst in, butt in, charge in, circumvent the law, come between, commit a crime, commit sin, contravene, contravention, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, crime, crime against humanity, crowd in, cut in, deadly sin, defy, delinquency, dereliction, deviate, disobey the law, disregard the law, do amiss, do violence to, do wrong, do wrong by, edge in, elbow in, encroach, encroachment, enormity, enter, entrance, entrench, entrenchment, err, error, evil, failure, fault, felony, flout, foist in, genocide, go too far, guilty act, heavy sin, horn in, impinge, impingement, impose, impose on, impose upon, imposition, impropriety, incursion, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infiltrate, infiltration, influx, infract, infraction, infringe, infringement, iniquity, injection, injury, injustice, inroad, insinuate, insinuation, interfere, interference, interjection, interlope, interloping, intermeddle, interpose, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervene, intervention, intrude, intrusion, invade, invasion, irrupt, irruption, know no bounds, lapse, lawbreaking, make an inroad, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, minor wrong, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, mortal sin, nonfeasance, obtrude, obtrusion, offend, offense, omission, outrage, overstep, overstep the bounds, overstepping, peccadillo, peccancy, penetrate, pierce, play God, playing God, press in, pretend to, probe, push in, put on, put upon, rush in, seize, seizure, set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slink in, slip, slip in, smash in, sneak in, squeeze in, steal in, storm in, take over, throng in, thrust in, tort, trample on, trample underfoot, trample upon, transgress, transgression, trench, trespassing, trip, unlawful entry, unutterable sin, usurp, usurpation, venial sin, violate, violate the law, violation, violation of law, work in, worm in, wrong
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