Any Guesses As To What This Word Was Supposed To Be?

I'm looking at an order that was published in the August 30, 1794 Centinel of the North-West Territory (a Cincinnati, Ohio newspaper). It's an order for all members of the militia to be armed when attending church, and there's one word here that doesn't make any sense:

The practice of assembling for public worship without arms may be attended with most sedlicious and melancholy consequences--it presents to an enemy of the smallest degree of enterprize to effect each fatal impression upon our infant settlements as posterity might long in vain lament.

I thought perhaps "sedlicious" might be a misspelling of "seditious," but that really doesn't fit, and I can't find any word that is close to that spelling that makes sense. Any ideas?

UPDATE: One reader suggested that it might be a typo for "sedulous" but that doesn't make sense in that context. Another reader pointed to these 1790 and 1792 uses of seditious--which are similar--but don't seem to be used in a sense different from the modern meaning of the word--which doesn't make sense in this context.