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| English Dictionary: errötete |
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| 2 results for errötete |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- err
- v
- to make a mistake or be incorrect [syn: err, mistake,
slip]
- wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"
Synonym(s): stray, err, drift
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Err \Err\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Erred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Erring}
(?; 277, 85).] [F. errer, L. errare; akin to G. irren, OHG.
irran, v. t., irr[?]n, v. i., OS. irrien, Sw. irra, Dan.
irre, Goth, a[a1]rzjan to lead astray, airzise astray.]
1. To wander; to roam; to stray. [Archaic] [bd]Why wilt thou
err from me?[b8] --Keble.
What seemeth to you, if there were to a man an
hundred sheep and one of them hath erred. --Wyclif
(Matt. xviii.
12).
2. To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed
at. [bd]My jealous aim might err.[b8] --Shak.
3. To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake
in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
The man may err in his judgment of circumstances.
--Tillotson.
4. To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a
figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.
Do they not err that devise evil? --Prov. xiv.
22.
5. To offend, as by erring.
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