#495.  Error. —­ N. error, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension,
misstanding[obs3], misunderstanding; inexactness &c. adj.; laxity; misconstruction &c. (misinterpretation) 523; miscomputation &c. (misjudgment) 481; non sequitur &c. 477; mis-statement, mis-report; mumpsimus[obs3].
     mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight,
misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip, stumble &c. (failure) 732; botchery &c. (want of skill) 699[obs3]; slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip; slip of the pen; lapsus linguae[Lat], clerical error; bull &c. (absurdity) 497; haplography[obs3].
     illusion, delusion; snare; false impression, false idea; bubble; self-
decit, self-deception; mists of error.
     heresy &c. (heterodoxy) 984; hallucination &c. (insanity) 503; false
light &c. (fallacy of vision) 443; dream &c. (fancy) 515; fable &c. (untruth) 546; bias &c. (misjudgment) 481; misleading &c. v. 
     V. be erroneous &c. adj.
     cause error; mislead, misguide; lead astray, lead into error; beguile,
misinform &c. (misteach) 538[obs3]; delude; give a false impression, give a false idea; falsify, misstate; deceive &c. 545; lie &c. 544.
     err; be -in error &c. adj., be mistaken &c. v.; be deceived &c.
(duped) 547; mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself; fall into error, lie under error, labor under an error &c. n.; be in the wrong, blunder; misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misreckon, miscount, miscalculate &c. (misjudge) 481.
     play at cross purposes, be at cross purposes &c. (misinterpret) 523.
     trip, stumble; lose oneself &c. (uncertainty) 475; go astray; fail &c.
732; be in the wrong box; take the wrong sow by the ear &c. (mismanage) 699; put the saddle on the wrong horse; reckon without one’s host; take the shadow for the substance &c (credulity) 486; dream &c (imagine) 515. 
     Adj. erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious,
apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial &c. 4; heretical &c. (heterodox) 984; unsound; illogical &c. 477.
     inexact, unexact inaccurate[obs3], incorrect; indefinite &c.
(uncertain) 475.
     illusive, illusory; delusive; mock, ideal &c (imaginary) 515; spurious
&c. 545; deceitful &c. 544; perverted.
     controvertible, unsustainable; unauthenticated, untrustworthy.
     exploded, refuted; discarded.
     in error, under an error &c. n.; mistaken &c. v.; tripping &c. v.;
out, out in one’s reckoning; aberrant; beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off; astray &c (at fault) 475; on a false scent, on the wrong scent; in the wrong box, outside the ballpark; at cross purposes, all in the wrong; all out. 
     Adv. more or less. 
     Phr. errare est humanum[Lat]; mentis gratissimus error [Lat][Horace];
“on the dubious waves of error tost” [Cowper]; “to err is human, to forgive divine” [Pope]; “you lie —­ under a mistake” [Shelley].