Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for ER-RO'NE-OUS
ER-RO'NE-OUS, a. [L. erroneus, from erro, to err.]
- Wandering; roving; unsettled. They roam / Erroneous and disconsolate. Philips.
- Deviating; devious; irregular; wandering from the right course. Erroneous circulation of blood. Arbuthnot. [The foregoing applications of the word are less common.]
- Mistaking; misled; deviating, by mistake, from the truth. Destroy not the erroneous with the malicious.
- Wrong; false; mistaken; not conformable to truth; erring from truth or justice; as, an erroneous opinion or judgment.
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