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offensatio

offensātĭo, ōnis, f. [offenso], 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.

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