offensĭo (noun F) : 1. offendo
* A striking against any thing; a tripping, stumbling (class.).
* Lit.: pedis offensio,Cic. Div. 2, 40, 84; in plur.: offensiones pedum,Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 24: dentium, Lact. Opif. Dei, 10, 13. —Absol.: offensione sonitūs,Vitr. 9, 8, 3.
* Transf., that against which one stumbles, a stumbling-block: ut nihil offensionis haberet,Cic. Univ. 6, 15.
* Trop.
* An offence given to any one; hence,disfavor, aversion, disgust, dislike, hatred, discredit, bad reputation,Cic. Div. in Caecil. 3, 9; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 69, § 178 (for which: existimatio offensa nostri ordinis,id. ib. 2, 2, 47, § 117): sapiens praetor offensionem vitat aequalitate decernendi,id. Mur. 20, 41: suscipere invidiam atque offensionem apud aliquem,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 55, § 137: in odium offensionemque populi Romani inruere,id. ib. 1, 12, 35: cadere,id. N. D. 1, 30, 85: offensionem excipere,id. Inv. 1, 21, 30: subire,Plin. 35, 4, 7, § 23: adferre,Cic. Att. 1, 17, 1: offensiones accendere,Tac. A. 2, 57: hoc apud alios offensionem habet,displeases them,Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 9.
* An offence which one receives; displeasure, vexation: habere ad res certas vitiosam offensionem atque fastidium,Cic. Tusc. 4, 10, 23: mihi majori offensioni sunt quam delectationi possessiunculae meae, give me more vexation than pleasure, id. Att. 13, 23, 3.
* A complaint, indisposition; an accident, misfortune, mishap, failure: corporum offensiones,Cic. Tusc. 4, 14, 31: graves solent offensiones esse ex gravibus morbis, si qua culpa commissa est,id. Fam. 16, 10, 1: habet enim nihil quod in offensione deperdat,i.e. if he loses his cause,id. Div. in Caecil. 22, 71: offensiones belli,misfortunes, defeats,id. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28: offensionum et repulsarum ignominia,i.e. refusals,id. Off. 1, 21, 71.
* That which causes one to offend or sin, a stumbling-block (eccl. Lat.): unusquisque offensiones oculorum suorum abiciat,Vulg. Ezech. 20, 7: nemini dantes ullam offensionem,id. 2 Cor. 6, 3: lapis offensionis,id. 1 Pet. 2, 8 al.

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