Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (I) Formation of Ideas
Section V. Results of Reasoning

495. Error.

   NOUN:ERROR, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension, misunderstanding; aberration, aberrance or aberrancy; inexactness &c. adj.; laxity; misconstruction (misinterpretation) [See Misinterpretation]; anachronism; miscomputation (misjudgment) [See Misjudgment]; non sequitur [L.] [See Intuition. Sophistry]; misstatement, misreport; mumpsimus.
  MISTAKE; miss, fault, blunder, cross-purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip, stumble (failure) [See Failure]; botchery (want of skill) [See Unskillfulness]; slip of the tongue, lapsus linguœ [L.]; slip of the pen, lapsus calami [L.], clerical error; bull (absurdity) [See Absurdity]; Spoonerism, Malapropism, Leiterism [U. S.], Mrs. Partington; haplography.
  DELUSION, illusion; false -, warped -, distorted- -impression, – idea; bubble; self-deceit, self-deception; mists of error; exploded -notion, – idea, – superstition.
  heresy (heterodoxy) [See Heterodoxy]; hallucination (insanity) [See Insanity]; false light (fallacy of vision) [See Dim-sightedness]; dream (fancy) [See Imagination]; fable (untruth) [See Untruth]; bias (misjudgment) [See Misjudgment]; misleading &c. v.
   VERB:BE ERRONEOUS &c. adj.
  MISLEAD, misguide; lead astray, lead into error; cause error; beguile, misinform (misteach) [See Misteaching]; delude; give a false -impression, – idea; falsify, misstate; deceive [See Deception]; lie [See Falsehood].
  ERR; be in error &c. adj., be mistaken &c. v.; be deceived (duped) [See Dupe]; mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself; fall into -, lie under -, labor under- an error &c. n.; be in the wrong, blunder; misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misreckon, miscount, miscalculate (misjudge) [See Misjudgment].
  play -, be- at cross purposes (misinterpret) [See Misinterpretation].
  TRIP, stumble; lose oneself (uncertainty) [See Uncertainty]; go astray; fail [See Failure]; be in the wrong box; take the wrong sow by the ear (mismanage) [See Unskillfulness]; put the saddle on the wrong horse; reckon without one’s host; take the shadow for the substance (credulity) [See Credulity]; dream (imagine) [See Imagination].
   ADJECTIVE:ERRONEOUS, untrue, false, devoid of truth, faulty, erring, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial [See Unsubstantiality]; heretical (heterodox) [See Heterodoxy]; unsound; illogical [See Intuition. Sophistry].
  INEXACT, unexact, inaccurate, incorrect; indefinite (uncertain) [See Uncertainty].
  ILLUSIVE, illusory, delusive; mock, ideal (imaginary) [See Imagination]; spurious [See Deception]; deceitful [See Falsehood]; perverted.
  CONTROVERTIBLE, unsustainable, unsustained, unauthentic, unauthenticated, untrustworthy.
  EXPLODED, refuted, discarded.
  MISTAKEN &c. v.; in error, under an error &c. n.; tripping &c. v.; out, out in one’s reckoning; aberrant; beside -, wide of- -the mark, – the truth; astray (at fault) [See Uncertainty]; on -a false, – the wrong- -scent, – trail; in the wrong box; at cross-purposes, all in the wrong; all out [colloq.]; all abroad [colloq.], at sea, bewildered.
   ADVERB:more or less.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Errare est humanum.
2. Mentis gratissimus error.—Horace
3. On the dubious waves of error tost.—Cowper
4. To err is human, to forgive divine.—Pope
5. You lie—under a mistake.—Shelley
6. ’Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.—Sheridan
7. The village that voted the earth was flat.—Kipling
8. We all have a half-warmed fish in our bosoms.—Spoonerism