| 单词 | clerical error |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclerical error 2. Of or pertaining to a clerk or penman (see clerk n. 5), of clerks; esp. in clerical error, an error made in writing anything out. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writer > [adjective] > like or relating to professional writer or copyist scriptorial1797 clerical1798 clerkish1824 clerkly1839 scribal1855 1798 E. H. Bay Rep. Cases Superior Courts S.-Carolina 80 The syllable ‘out’ being omitted through a clerical mistake in the person who drew the will. 1837 J. Gurwood in Duke of Wellington Dispatches IV. 105 It is supposed that this is a clerical error. 1865 New York World 13 Oct. A clerical force is employed to keep the accounts and attend to the correspondence. 1879 Daily News 16 Sept. 3/3 The clerical service of the Customs. clerical error a. Something incorrectly done through ignorance or inadvertence; a mistake, e.g. in calculation, judgement, speech, writing, action, etc. Phrase, to commit an error. clerical error (see clerical adj. and n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] misnimming?c1225 errora1340 defaulta1387 balkc1430 fault1523 jeofail1546 errat1548 trip1548 naught1557 missa1568 missinga1568 slide1570 snappera1572 amiss1576 mistaking1579 misprize1590 mistake1600 berry-block1603 solecism1603 fallibility1608 stumblea1612 blota1657 slur1662 incorrectnessa1771 bumble1823 skew1869 (to make) a false step1875 slip-up1909 ricket1958 bad1981 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter Comm. 45 Errour in hit is ther non. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. v. xii. 286 Huchowne bath and þe autore Gyltles ar of gret errore. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton 3 I..byseche all suche that fynde faute or errour that of theyr charyte they correcte and amende hit. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 78 I wyl confesse thys to be a grete errore in our commyn wele. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 241 This is the greatest errour of all the rest; the man should be put into the lanthorne. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. iv. 15 For the errours of Definitions multiply themselves. 1710 H. Bedford Vindic. Church of Eng. 182 With all the Errors of the Press corrected in it with a Pen. 1781 W. Cowper Friendship iv Boys care but little whom they trust, An errour soon corrected. 1814 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. II. ii. vii. 323 The first solution of the problem of the Precession..given by Newton..is not free from error. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 125 He could hardly fail to perceive that he had committed a great error. < as lemmas |
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