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offensaculum
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Lewis Short
offensācŭlum (noun N) : offenso
* A striking against, a tripping, stumbling (postclass.).
* Lit.: crebris offensaculis contusa crura,App. M. 9, p. 221, 3.
* Transf., the object against which one stumbles, a stumbling-block: lapis ecce nostro fixus offensaculo est,Prud. Apoth. 45; so, adversarius nostris offensacula pedibus latenter opponit,Lact. Opt. D. 1.
* A striking against, a tripping, stumbling (postclass.).
* Lit.: crebris offensaculis contusa crura,App. M. 9, p. 221, 3.
* Transf., the object against which one stumbles, a stumbling-block: lapis ecce nostro fixus offensaculo est,Prud. Apoth. 45; so, adversarius nostris offensacula pedibus latenter opponit,Lact. Opt. D. 1.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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