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Deviating from a certain conrfe ; 
Knots, by the conflux of meeting fap, 
Infedt the found pine, and divert his grain. 
Furtive and errant , from his conrfe of growth, Shahejtyeare. 
ER'RANTRY, /. An errant date * the condition of a 
wanderer.—After a fliort fpace of errantry upon the feas, 
he got fafe back to Dunkirk. Addifon, —The employment 
of a knight errant. 
ER'RATA,yi [Lat.] The faults of the printer in- 
ferted in the beginning or end of the book.'—If he meet 
with faults, betides thofe that the errata take notice of, 
he will confider the weaknefs of the author’s eyes. Boyle. 
ERRA'TIC, adj. [ erraticus , Lat.] Wandering; un¬ 
certain; keeping no certain order; holding no eftablifhed 
conrfe. This term is commonly applied to the planets 
which are called erratic or wandering liars, in contradif- 
tindlion to the fixed fiars ; 
The earth, and each erratic world, 
Around the fun their proper centre whirl’d, 
Compofe but one extended vaft machine. Rlackmore. 
Irregular; changeable.—They are incommoded with a 
flimy mattery cough, ftink of breath, and an erratic fever, 
Harvey. 
ERRATICALLY, adv. Without rule ; without any 
eftablifhed method or order.-—They come not forth in 
generations erratically, or different from each other,' but 
in fpecifical and regular fhapes. Brown. 
ERRATUM,/. The Angular number of Errata. 
ER'RHINES,yi [from Gr. the nofe.] Medicines 
fnuffed up the nofe to promote a difeharge of the mucus. 
ER'RIFF, a province of Africa, in the country of Fez, 
ERRIP'SIS, f. [from e^tjrl «, Gr. to caft down.] A 
proftration or lofs of ftrength. 
ER'ROAD, a town of India, in the country of Coimbe- 
tore : thirty-nine miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Damicotta, and 
forty-eight north-eaft of Coimbetore. 
ER'ROL, a town of the American ftates, on lake Um- 
bagog, in tlie north eafternmoft fettled part of Grafton 
county, New-Hampftiire, incorporated in 1774. 
ERROMAN'GO, an ifland in the Southern Pacific 
Ocean, and one of thofe called the New Hebrides, about 
twenty-four leagues in circumference. Lat. 18. 47. S, 
Ion. 169. 19. E. Greenwich. 
F.RRONA'N or Tootoona, an ifland in the South 
Pacific Ocean, and one of the mod eaftern of thofe called 
the New Hebrides, about five leagues in circumference. 
ERRO'NEOUS, adj. [from erro, Lat.] Wandering; 
unfettled.—This circle, by being placed here, flopped 
much of the erroneous light, which otherwife would have 
difturbed the vifion. Newton. 
Unblam’d abundance crown’d the royal board, 
What time this dame rever’d her prudent lord ; 
Who now, fo heav’n decrees, is doom’d to mourn, 
Bitter conftraint I erroneous and forlorn. Ptpe. 
Irregular; wandering from the right road.—If the vef- 
fels, inftead of breaking, yield, it fubjefts the perfon 
to all the inconveniences of erroneous circulation ; that is, 
when the blood ftrays into the veffels deftined to carry 
ferum or lymph. Arbut'inot. —Miftaking ; milled by error. 
—Thou art far from deftroying the innocent with the 
guilty, and the erroneous with the malicious. King Charles. 
-—Miftaken ; not conformable to truth ; phyfically falfe. 
.—The phaenomena of light have been hitherto explained, 
by fuppofing that they arife from new modifications of 
the rays, which is an erroneous fuppofition. Newton. 
ERRO'NEOUSLY,arfw. Bymiftake; not rightly.—The 
minds of men are erroneoujly perfuaded, that it is the will of 
God to have thofe tilings done which they fancy. Hook. 
ERRO'NEOUSNESS, f. Phyfical falfehoodj incon¬ 
formity to truth.—The phaenomena may be explained 
by his hypothefis, whereof he demonftrates the truth, to¬ 
gether with the erroneoufnejs of ours. Boyle, 
EUR 
RR'RGR, f. [Lat.] Miftake; involuntary .deviation 
irom truth. —Error is a miftake of our judgment giving 
affent to that which is not true, Locke. 
Oh, hateful error, melancholy’s child! 
Why do*ft thou fhew to the apt thoughts of men, 
The things that are not ? Shakefpeare, 
A blunder; an a£t or affertion in which a miftake is 
committed: 
In religion. 
What damned error , but fome fober brow 
Will blefs it ? • Shakefpeare , 
Roving excurfion; irregular courfe : 
What brought you living to the Stygian ftate ? 
Driv’n by the winds and errors of the fea. 
Or did you Heav’n’s fuperior doom obey ? Dryden. 
[In theology.] Sin.—Blood he offered for himfelf, and 
for the errors of the people. Heb. ix. 7, 
ER'ROR, in law, fignifies fomething wrong in plead¬ 
ing or procefs ; whereupon a writ is brought for remedy 
thereof, called a writ of error. This writ is a commiffion 
to judges of a fuperior court by which they are authorifed 
to examine the record, upon which a judgment was given 
in an inferior court, and on fuch examination to affirm or 
reverfe the fame, according to law. Jenk.Rcp.25. There 
is alfo a writ of error to reverfe a fine, and which mu ft be 
profecuted within twenty years by 10 & 11 Wil. III. c.14. 
A writ of error to fome fuperior court of appeal is the 
principal method of redrefs for erroneous judgments in 
the king’s courts of record, having power to hold plea of 
debt or trepafs above 40s. It lies for fome fuppofed 
miftake in the proceedings of fuch court; for, to amend 
errors in a bafe court, not of record, a writ of falfe judg¬ 
ment lies. Finch L. 484. The writ of error only lies upon 
matter of law, arifing on the face of the proceedings; fo 
that no evidence is required to fubftantiate or fupport it, 
there being no method of reverfing an error in the deter¬ 
mination of faffs, but by an attaint or a new trial, to cor¬ 
rect the miftakes of the former verdifl. If a writ of error be 
brought to reverfe any judgment of an inferior court of re¬ 
cord where the damages are lefs than iol. or if it is brouglit 
to reverfe the judgment of any fuperior court after ver¬ 
dict, he that brings the writ, or that is plaintiff in error, 
nmft (except in fome peculiar cafes) find fubftantial bail; 
to prevent delays by frivolous pretences of appeal; and 
for fecuring payment of cofts and damages. 3 Jac. I. c. 8. 
13 C/t. II. c. z. 16&17CLIT.C.8. 19 Geo. III. c. 70. 
A writ of error lies from the inferior courts of record 
in England into the king’s bench, and not into the com¬ 
mon pleas. Finch L. 4S0. And before 23 Geo. III. c. 28, it 
lay from the king’s bench in Ireland to the king’s bench 
in England. It likewife may be brought from the com. 
mon pleas at Weftminfter to the king’s bench, and then 
from the king’s bench the caufe is removable to the houfe 
of lords. From proceedings on the law fide of the ex¬ 
chequer, a writ of error lies into the court of exchequer- 
chamber, before the lord chancellor, lord treafurer, and 
the judges of the courts of king’s-bench and common- 
pleas ; and from thence it lies to the houfe of peers. 
From proceedings in the king’s-bench in debt, detinue, 
covenant, account, cafe, ejedlment, or trefpafs, originally 
begun there by bill (except where the king is a party), it 
lies to the exchequer-chamber, before the jiiftices of the 
common-pleas and barons of the exchequer; and from 
thence alfo to the houfe of lords. z'jEliz. c. 8. But 
where the proceedings in the king’s-bench do not firft 
commence therein by bill, but by original writ fued out 
of chancery, this takes the cafe out of the general rule 
laid down by the ftatute ; fo that the writ of error then 
lies without any intermediate ftage of appeal dire£lly to the 
houfe of lords, the dernier refort for the ultimate decifion 
of every civil attion. Cart/i. 180. Comb. 295. Each court 
of appeal in their refpeftive ltagcs may, upon hearing the 
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