Err (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Erred (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Erring (?; 277, 85).]
[F. errer, L. errare; akin to G. irren, OHG. irran,
v. t., irr&?;n, v. i., OS. irrien, Sw. irra, Dan. irre, Goth, aírzjan to lead astray, airzise astray.] 1. To wander; to
roam; to stray. [Archaic] "Why wilt thou
err from me?" Keble.
What seemeth to you, if there
were to a man an hundred sheep and one of them hath
erred.
Wyclif (Matt. xviii.
12). 2. To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at. "My jealous aim might err." Shak.
3. To miss intellectual truth; to fall into
error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.
The man may err in his judgment of
circumstances.
Tillotson. 4.
To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.
Do they not
err that devise evil?
Prov. xiv. 22. 5. To
offend, as by erring.
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