The corpus record — Latin

offensatio

offensatio · f

a hitting

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Where it lives

De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

offensātĭo — Lewis & Short

offensātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a hitting or striking against any thing (post-Aug.).

I Lit., Plin. 28, 16, 62, § 221: ut offensatione illā (hastae) commoneretur (Demosthenes), Quint. 11, 3, 130.—

II Trop., a stumbling, tripping; a slip, blunder: debemus patienter ferre offensationes memoriae labentis, Sen. Ben. 5, 25, 6.

In the wild

offensatione Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.16.p1
offensationes Seneca, De Beneficiis 5.25.6
offensatione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.130
offensatione Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.4.3

Where it came from

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