Emily Dickinson Lexicon

ER-RO'NE-OUS, a. [L. erroneus, from erro, to err.]

1. Wandering; roving; unsettled. They roam / Erroneous and disconsolate. Philips.
2. Deviating; devious; irregular; wandering from the right course. Erroneous circulation of blood. Arbuthnot. [The foregoing applications of the word are less common.]
3. Mistaking; misled; deviating, by mistake, from the truth. Destroy not the erroneous with the malicious.
4. Wrong; false; mistaken; not conformable to truth; erring from truth or justice; as, an erroneous opinion or judgment.