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单词 erratum
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erratumn.

/ɛˈrɑːtəm//ɛˈreɪtəm/
Forms: Plural errata.
Etymology: < Latin errātum, neuter past participle of errāre : see err v.
1.
a. An error in writing or printing; chiefly, an error noted in a list of corrections attached to a printed book.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > error in written mode > instance of
miswriting1430
falsehoodc1440
fault1523
escape1570
erratum1589
errat1654
misprint1813
mis-script1817
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome G b Errata, or faults escaped.
1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) iv. xxxv. 151 The World's a Book..'Tis falsly printed, though divinely penn'd, And all th' Errata will appear at th' end.
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 247 God..upon a Solemn Review of his Works..found not one Erratum in the whole Book of Nature.
1714 Spectator No. 579. ⁋1 The Company of Stationers..made a very remarkable Erratum or Blunder in one of their Editions [of the Bible].
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. Pref. The long Catalogue of errata that disfigures this work.
c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches II. 234 An erratum to a volume.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. vi. 142 The errata are put immediately before the body of the work, or at the end of it.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. p. vii I have inserted as corrections under the head of errata.
b. transferred.
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a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 20 This I therefore reckon one of the first Errata of my Life.
2.
a. Like other plurals in -a, errata often appears in 17–18th centuries with the addition of -'s or -es without alteration of sense.
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a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) xi Hee's a page Fill'd with Errata's of the present age.
1678 Young Man's Calling 53 Look back upon time past..that the former errata's and miscarriages of life may be henceforth corrected.
1727 J. Swift Further Acc. E. Currl Resolved, That a number of effective errata's be raised out of Pope's Homer.
b. At the same period, errata occurs as a singular, = ‘list of errata’, and in that sense takes -es in plural.
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1635 W. Lambarde & T. Lambarde Archeion (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. A5v Those that..swallow the Errours for Errataes.
1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty A. 4 a I have made an Amends by printing an Errata.
1659 P. Heylyn Examen Historicum ii. 150 Such Misnomers are so frequent in him, as might make a sufficient Errata at the end of his History.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 105 The Errataes at the end of books.
3. attributive in plural.
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a1852 T. Moore Devil among Schol. 35 In whom the dear errata column Is the best page in all the volume!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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