ERRO'NEOUS, adjective [Latin erroneus, from erro, to err.] 1. Wandering; roving; unsettled. They roam Erroneous and disconsolate. 2. Deviating; devious; irregular; wandering from the right course. Erroneous circulation of blood. [The foregoing applications of the word are less common.] 3. Mistaking; misled; deviating, by mistake, from the truth. Destroy not the erroneous with the malicious. 4. Wrong; false; mistaken; not conformable to truth; erring from truth or justice; as an erroneous opinion or judgment.
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