offensātĭo

ōnis, f.

id.

I. a hitting or striking against any thing (post-Aug.).

I. Lit., Plin. 28, 16, 62, § 221: ut offensatione illā (hastae) commoneretur (Demosthenes), Quint. 11, 3, 130.—

II. Trop., a stumbling, tripping; a slip, blunder: debemus patienter ferre offensationes memoriae labentis, Sen. Ben. 5, 25, 6.

Lewis & Short

A Latin Dictionary, 1879

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