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A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obs.] The rest of his journey, his error by sea. B. Jonson.

Full of error; wrong. Foxe.

One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.

A sudden awkening associated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, esp. those of unstable nervous constitution.

Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright. Terror seized the rebel host. Milton.

The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. Jefferson.

One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.

To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.

Free from terror. Poe.

reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors. "Magic I here abjure." Shak.

he heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

ruth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.

Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.

upervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

To make low or humble. [Obs.] Spenser. Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth. Jer. Taylor.

Alarm; terror; fright. [Obs.] Spenser.

Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror. He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith.

dden fear or alarm. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.