How To Use Erroneous In A Sentence

The law of reflection was known as early as the time of Euclid, about 320 b.c., and to this geometrician was attributed, although probably erroneously, a "Treatise on Mirrors", in which the principles of catoptrics were correctly set forth. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
In the 1930s, the universe had been shown to be expanding, so the cosmological constant seemed to be erroneous.
It was kind of hard to get too worked up about it when the TV news was busy erroneously reporting that the space shuttle was traveling "nearly 18 times the speed of light" when it went boom.
Kevin Newcomb suggests that stories in which Ask. com becomes a woman's search engine are overblown and erroneous. Internet News: Another interpretation of the Ask.com situation
There was an erroneous assumption that the sticky foam would be used as an anti-personnel weapon, and visions of an agitator with his head covered with a blob of foam prevented a more careful analysis of the intended use of the foam.

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That sense of humour has helped the group survive many an erroneous rumour.
Ridley's goal is to demolish this view and explain why Galton's nature / nurture dichotomy is erroneous.
Early reports of leucite from this locality were shown to be an erroneous identification of analcime.
The Panamanian–any Panamanian, regardless of position or social status–was a “Spiggotty” or “Spig,” terms supposedly derived in earlier years from the erroneous claim of Panama City hackmen that they could “speaks-da-English.” The Path Between the Seas
These beliefs existed within the interstices of official faith and ritual and churchmen did not necessarily see them as pagan, unchristian, heretical or erroneous.
They suggest that their evidence based refutations of erroneous beliefs commonly expressed by immunisation defaulters are useful in dispelling their concerns.
To this Tycho objected, and Kepler had great difficulty in convincing him that the new move would be any improvement, but undertook to prove to him by actual examples that a false position of the orbit could by adjusting the equant be made to fit the longitudes within five minutes of arc, while giving quite erroneous values of the latitudes and second inequalities. Kepler
In the widespread, though erroneous, use of the term in current popular literature, there is a remnant of the notion that metaphysical means ultraphysical: thus, "metaphysical healing" means healing by means of remedies which are not physical. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
But the term valley would convey an erroneous idea, since the space between these two dominant ranges is filled with numerous cross chains, making the mountain character predominant, while the valleys are exceptional. North Carolina and its Resources.
Flemming, on the other hand, clung to his erroneous view that all the chromosomes are at first united into one long continu - ous thread, a “spireme,” which later breaks up into the separate chromosomes. GENETIC CONTINUITY
I wish to take issue with the recent erroneous and arrogant statements from hydro developers who seek to devalue the true worth of the Monadhliath Mountains to the nation.
His body was erroneously producing a flood of white blood cells in a frantic search for a disease that did not exist.
They're just relying on the consumer to make certain erroneous assumptions -- namely, that no one would be scummy enough to exploit cancer for profit. Pandora Young: The Pink Ribbon Marketing Scam
Goodness only knew how she was going to disabuse his mind of the erroneous assumption now clearly fixed in it. ON A WILD NIGHT
The Ministry of Information accused Nasha Niva of publishing what it called an erroneous report about authorities failing to evacuate one of the victims of Monday's attacks for several hours. Belarus subway bombing death toll rises to 13
This form of the Trochaic is sometimes called Anacreontic, but very erroneously, as Anacreon's metre is quite different.
In such a situation, even a tzaddik can reach an erroneous decision. Steve Posner: Why Have The Beatles Returned to Maharishi?
Money orders which, in consequence of misapprehension of the name of the remitter or place of payment have been erroneously made out, can be returned to the postmaster, and a correct order given in exchange; a new commission, however, will be charged on the corrected order. Canadian Postal Guide
Trivia note of the week: apparently this plant used to be called reedmace, and became known as 'bulrush' because of an erroneously named but popular painting. High summer
I thought my answer was correct, but it was erroneous.
That was quite a concession, given that they wanted the intent of the erroneous scrivener to prevail in interpretation.
Nor will courts building upon Roe be likely to hand down erroneous decisions as a consequence.
Sugar paste, home made or bought, is sometimes erroneously called fondant icing.
Sinjáb is Persian for the skin of the grey squirrel (Mu. lemmus, the lemming), the meniver, erroneously miniver, (menu vair) as opposed to the ermine = (Mus Armenius, or mustela erminia.) The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
With strong internal controls, a church can more easily refute erroneous claims brought by any form of media. Christianity Today
One of his conclusions is that the so-called technical exercises, gymnastics, manual training, sloyd, and the like, are not, as they are erroneously called, a relaxation from mental overstrain by change in work, but simply a new form of brain fatigue. The Education of the Child
I was immediately struck by the chutzpah of Sullivan's statement -- both because of its erroneousness and because he had the audacity to make it. David Kaufman: Co-Opted: Marriage Equality's Civil Rights Rip-Off
He has an erroneous opinion about the problem.
Never accuse a reviewer of dishonesty or exaggeration; erroneous claims are often the result of a misunderstanding, not maliciousness.
Lieutenant Cook hath fully ascertained the erroneousness of this opinion. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
The Great Pyramid is attributed erroneously to Khufu (Cheops) – with the other two being those of Khafre (Chephren) and Menkaura (Mycerinus). Name Stargate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
But'these allegations are full of misleading and erroneous claims. Times, Sunday Times
Acting under this erroneous assumption, he passed on this alleged order to his company.
One big sign at the front of the store saying "We Do Not Sell Self Published Books" (or similar wording if this isn't OK for some reason) would seem to help dispell the erroneous assumption. Msagara: An open letter to Trade Publishers
Generals admitted relying on intelligence reports of ground damage that were unverified, contradictory, erroneous and misleading.
Spectra acquired from liquid samples that are inhomogeneous or that contain air bubbles can yield erroneous concentration values.
There is nothing stated which is erroneous or wrong and there is no allegation that there is.
I've questioned its fundamentality and erroneousness... EconLog: June 2009 Archives
My biggest beef, though, is with the erroneous use of apostrophes to pluralize acronyms and abbreviations like CEOs, GIs, and CDs.
But considering the diglossia of modern Arabic (and the various sources of modern Iraqi Arabic), I don't find it difficult at all to believe that native speakers might have erroneous(sp?) or conflicting ideas about what things mean. Languagehat.com: ABU GHRAIB.
May be they are veridical observations of some enormous rare ape mistaken for an ˜ape - man™ or may be just erroneous observations of sociopaths in Yak coats? Semantic Challenges to Realism
Lord Acton's erroneous idea, that Ridolfi was employed by Pius V to obtain Elizabeth's assassination, seems to have arisen from a mistranslation of Gabutio's Latin Life of St. Pius in the Bollandists Cecil eventually discovered the intrigue; Norfolk was beheaded, 2 June, 1572, and the Puritans clamoured for Mary's blood, but in this particular Elizabeth would not gratify them. Mary Queen of Scots
A method used to correct erroneous data produced during data transmission, transfer, or storage.
Kant's criticism of the metaphysical disciplines centers on his efforts to show that the ideas of reason (the soul, the world and God), which are thought in accordance with the demand for the unconditioned, get erroneously “hypostatized” by reason, or thought as mind-independent “objects” about which we might seek knowledge. Kant's Critique of Metaphysics
Testament Scriptures -- one which was at once erroneous and singular among the Fathers of the Church -- applied the title Apocrypha to the excess of the Catholic canon of the Old Testament over that of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Biden's campaign is only "over" in the sense that a car is "dead" - the term erroneously supposes some preexisting animate state. Biden gets attention.
Viewed in cold and analytical light, the figure was probably erroneous because of the lack of precision of the aircraft's instruments.
This decision of the Supreme Court on the plea in abatement that the plaintiff (a Negro, Dred Scott) was not a citizen in the sense of the word in Article iii, Sec. 2 of the Constitution, was based upon an erroneous idea respecting the location of the word _citizen_ in the instrument. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
Sumatra from Java, which he called the strait of Polimban, from a city he erroneously supposed to lie on the Javan shore, and passing through this returned to Malacca by the east; being the first European who sailed round the island of Sumatra. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
Although it made for lurid headlines, the media nickname was erroneous. THE HUNTING OF MAN
In American English, careen is certainly a Lost Cause, since its use in this erroneous sense is recognised in dictionaries, but for British English it may not be too late to rescue it. The meaning of “careening” « Motivated Grammar
The costs involved in reviewing surgical pathology slides are outweighed by the potential cost of unnecessary or erroneous treatment.
[* Thus, at five or six inches depth, between the roots of the Hymenea courbaril, masses of the resin anime (erroneously called copal) are discovered, and are sometimes mistaken for amber in inland places. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Consequently, the pituitary receptors would be preserved, and the pituitary would erroneously sense that the thyroid status in the periphery is normal.
In addition, the chosen information was often misleading or erroneous.
Many Internet users are following inaccurate information online, which U.K. researchers say can lead to erroneous self-diagnoses and cyberchondria.
A method used to correct erroneous data produced during data transmission, transfer, or storage.
The term wastage is somewhat misleading, if not erroneous. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
A poignant but erroneous cliche has made its way into journalism over the past few years.
Further, the GAO noted several examples of companies that apparently had used the EnergyStar label erroneously or fraudulently (LG and Samsung). DailyTech News Feed
In the film, plant operators rely on an erroneous reading from a malfunctioning meter to gauge the water level used to cool the nuclear core.
Some people have the erroneous notion that one can contract AIDS by giving blood.
About half the applied decoration is champlevé enamel and a further third tinning, a thin coating of a tin-rich alloy covering some or all of the brooch's surface (often erroneously described as silvering).
The problem is, because of fluid dynamics, when the body is moving, the vestibular system generates erroneous cues about our orientation.
Its authority governed even the succession to the throne, in event of dispute between two members of the royal family; it alone was empowered to make laws or "assizes", and to its initiative was due the compilation of the "Assizes of Jerusalem", erroneously ascribed to Godfrey of Bouillon. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
This is not a commercial activity," Mr. Della Valle insisted at a Rome press conference, rejecting what he called erroneous reports that Tod's would benefit commercially from exclusive use of the Colosseum image for his company's merchandise. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
_ Tremor of old age consists of a perpetual trembling of the hands, or of the head, or of other muscles, when they are exerted; and is erroneously called paralytic; and seems owing to the small quantity of animal power residing in the muscular fibres. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Xenophon figured out the queen bee but erroneously assigned her supervisory responsibilities she doesn't have.
I may have created the erroneous impression that I have done nothing but shop since being here.
Mele (2001), drawing on empirical research regarding lay hypothesis testing, argues that selectivity may be explained in terms of the agent's assessment of the relative costs of erroneously believing p and ~p. Self-Deception
What he found out was that he had been seized in the erroneous belief that he was American. Times, Sunday Times
Some held the erroneous opinion of private dissolubility, because they regarded such a union as no real marriage, but simply as betrothal, and therefore they treated it according to the juridical principles in regard to betrothal. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Harvey's observations clearly showed the Galenical view to be erroneous.
It has been interpreted as a beating out of evil spirits, as beautification, and even - erroneously - as buffoonery…
He seems to be under the erroneous impression that she is in love with him.
One day, while we were eating a red monkey erroneously called the baboon, in Demerara, an Arowack Indian told an affecting story of what happened to Wanderings in South America
I read line after line of erroneous reporting, with the sole intention of discrediting a political candidate.
For whatever reason he had formed the erroneous impression that she did not understand the Creole language.
If it be that more mature consideration suggested that that was erroneous, then one sees an appeal to the Court of Appeal.
In current popular usuage it often means merely a corpus of erroneous but widely held beliefs.
Despite the obvious erroneousness of the sceptics, they still keep the science in strangulation, if only because they take a lot of time. More Rants from Volkskrant « Climate Audit
He added: 'I am quite happy for our firm to be fined if we file erroneous claims. Times, Sunday Times
He added: 'I am quite happy for our firm to be fined if we file erroneous claims. Times, Sunday Times
The OED definition of the word erroneously states that atmospheric pressure makes siphons work, when in fact it is the force of gravity. Today.Az
Yet misperceptions about U.S. privacy and civil liberties protections persist, such as the erroneous belief that only U.S. citizens can obtain information that has been collected on them.
Moreover, the discussion in the foregoing pages demonstrates that it is erroneous to regard money transfer orders as comprising a single type of transaction.
What he found out was that he had been seized in the erroneous belief that he was American. Times, Sunday Times
Manchin's veto message said the final bill's title erroneously refers to a separate fund with an almost identical name. WHSV - HomePage - Headlines
To interpret such sayings without understanding the Arabic and its eloquence and its context is an erroneous path.
Reports that Achrysocharis species do not have a delimited clypeus are generally erroneous: the clypeus may or may not appear delimited based on the size and condition of the specimen.
Because we use the same verb to characterize what pleases and what gratifies us, we are inclined to expect, erroneously, that the liking comes from the same source.
The US-led coalition has announced investigations into a series of reports of erroneous airstrikes in recent weeks. Times, Sunday Times
People who come to see my solo shows have come to be entertained by the fact that I like ranting against erroneous belief systems. Times, Sunday Times
This bestselling novel was erroneously mistaken for historical fact.
He has an erroneous opinion about the problem.
The coming correction was preordained by bad policy choices backed by erroneous economic theories.
The second blind alley is a street strewn with erroneous data, data that interfere with the formulation of intelligent policy. Times, Sunday Times
An assumption such as that would be wholly limiting and likely erroneous in light of the varied and fluid lives proto-Ruvu speakers and their descendants have lived since their initial settlement in the region, as well as the more obvious point that speakers of a language do not have an essential biogenetic link to prior speakers of a language. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
Having been acquitted in Canton, he was erroneously set free by lawmen who didn't see the orders to transport him back.
The test remains rooted in an erroneous approach which starts from the wrong standpoint.
Subsequent checks suggested that these reports were erroneous. Times, Sunday Times
(* Thus, at five or six inches depth, between the roots of the Hymenea courbaril, masses of the resin anime (erroneously called copal) are discovered, and are sometimes mistaken for amber in inland places. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
His broader mission amounted to try to shoot down what he described as erroneous claims that have risen as the debate in Washington and the nation has developed. Undefined
This policy is but one of the Liberal reforms based on erroneous assumptions about poverty.
The Druids were known by name, but scarcely more than by name, to the Greeks, who derived the appellation erroneously from _drus_, an oak, under the supposition that the Druids preferred to perform their religious rites under the shadows of oaken groves. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad
There are dozens of stories about computerized voting machines producing erroneous results.
In truth, the popular misapprehension on this subject has not been occasioned by any obscurity in the colophons of the great printer, or in the survey of Stow, but merely by the erroneous constricted sense into which the word abbey has passed in this country. Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
We have reported recently that: (1) ribozymic precursors of the synthetases seem to have used the same two sterically mirror modes of tRNA recognition, (2) having these two modes might have helped in preventing erroneous aminoacylation of ancestral tRNAs with complementary anticodons, yet (3) the risk of confusion for the presumably earliest pairs of complementarily encoded amino acids had little to do with anticodons. BioMed Central - Latest articles
Some people have the erroneous notion that one can contract AIDS by giving blood.
This erroneous mode of wharfing seems to have been introduced when im - mediate interest only was considered, and without an anticipa - tion of the growth and population to which the towns were destined to arrive. Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others
Even if this land was acquired according to all the relevant laws of the time, the Jews were wrong – just like the British aristocrats in happy Valley during the British rule there, despite the erroneousness of the analogy. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The Millennium Bug, you may remember, was first erroneously applied to the Year 2000 bug, which singularly failed to cause any particularly big problems when the year clicked over to the 1st of January 2000.
You ought to examine yourself honestly and find out the source of your erroneous views.
There is a well-known poem by Goethe, “Weltliteratur” (1827), which rehearses rather the delights of folk poetry and actually got its title erroneously from the editor of the LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES
Were the pilots not warned of engine failure or did a system erroneously shut down the engines? Times, Sunday Times
Your blase attitude gives your students an erroneous impression of the joys of scholarship.
He added: 'I am quite happy for our firm to be fined if we file erroneous claims. Times, Sunday Times
First, this is a reminder to all of us who try to communicate climate science to the general public - or even to the media elite and other opinion makers erroneously labeled the "cognoscenti" - not to take the most basic fact of climate science for granted. Climate Progress
There are two nouns morion kind of helmet, does not concern us here (it is probably from Spanish smoky quartz, has an interesting etymology: it is from a Latin word here about collimate, from an erroneous reading of Latin collineare; I wonder if there is a list somewhere of words with similar histories? Languagehat.com
It was clear to a mind so acute as Bruno's that the dogmas of the Church were correlated to a view of the world which had been superseded; and he drew the logical inference that they were at bottom but poetical and popular adumbrations of the Deity in terms concordant with erroneous physical notions. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
The bank erroneously transferred the money to her account.
It is risky and erroneous to assume that terrorists will be deterred by criminal prosecution alone.
With strong internal controls, a church can more easily refute erroneous claims brought by any form of media. Christianity Today
It can also create complications for individual victims if their names become associated with synthetic identities, or if their credit scores are impacted by negative information in an erroneous subfile. Robert Siciliano: Colorado Supreme Court: Using a Stolen Social Security Number is Not Identity Theft
Elisha said a single word; the tolerance of high places, teraphim and betylia; the offering of incense for centuries to the brazen serpent destroyed by Hezekiah; the occasional glimpses of the most startling irregularities sanctioned apparently even in the temple worship itself, prove most decisively that a pure monotheism and an independence of symbols was the result of a slow and painful course of God's disciplinal dealings among the noblest thinkers of a single nation, and not, as is so constantly and erroneously urged, the instinct of the whole Semitic race; in other words, one single branch of the Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study
Information published in a New York Timesarticle by Michelle York, June 21, 2006 affirmed that "The President of Alfred State College whose leadership was the focus of a rare, three-month investigation by state education officials last year …" It would appear that the New York Times article (and later The Chronicle of Higher Education) used the term investigation erroneously. An Investigative Report on Cyber-stalking at Alfred State College, New York
Forty-one years after Argentina's Roberto De Vicenzo suffered one of golf's most infamous calamities when he signed an erroneous Masters scorecard to be disqualified from a playoff, his countryman finishes the job. Masters finally able to deliver a Sunday filled with drama
He states that the verification of the occurrence of bracteoles could be useful, because there is a tendency to use ‘absent’ for ‘caducous’, which could lead to erroneous conclusions.
And when FL starts erroneously quoting theology he obviously knows nothing about, it kind of frosts me. The resurrection of Omphalos - The Panda's Thumb
If an electronic tabulation which is erroneous is replicated, repeating the error does not correct that error. BLUEPRINT FOR A NON-VIOLENT REVOLUTION
So he instead conducted a study into the unintentional humour of the erroneous predictive text - with the goal of teaching computers to be funnier. Times, Sunday Times
I suspect Walleyes Unlimited is preparing for the potential listing of sauger as threatened or endangered, alhtough I don't really see the advantage of having an erroneous, legislated designation of native should listing occur. Trout Unlimited Vs. Montana Walleyes
Some people have the erroneous notion that one can contract AIDS by giving blood.
It is often vindictive, lying, erroneous, deceitful, baseless, and devoid of any fact.
Some erroneously assert that all fish are female except in the cartilaginous fishes, for they think that the females of fish differ from what are supposed to be males only in the same way as in those plants where the one bears fruit but the other is fruitless, as olive and oleaster, fig and caprifig. On the Generation of Animals
He also said he sent Ashkenazi a blog post written by Max Boot of Commentary, which he said "astutely" picked apart the erroneous information that's been floating around. The Two Malcontents
Based on an erroneous suggestion that ADF members are somehow accruing an unfair benefit, the department has opted to actively discourage them from seeking civilian jobs in Defence altogether.
We have to correct or remould this erroneous belief in, the value of an ever-increasing Politics and Environment: An Interview
Self Defense is a term erroneously used by instructors to denote an ability to fight. WN.com - Business News
You didn't use the other common erroneous segue I find among Hillary die-hards, which is to segue to some variant of 'well, she's so much better than the guy now in office' ...... as though she is running against Bush. In New Hampshire, Hillary Pulls Away From Obama
But'these allegations are full of misleading and erroneous claims. Times, Sunday Times
Has it got anything to do with fishing being a rural, quarry sport, too closely associated, often erroneously, with tweedy people who shoot things?
Harmison has been blamed by some for the recent bickering and painted as a divisive influence but, says Flintoff, that is an erroneous perception. The Guardian World News
I thought my answer was correct, but it was erroneous.
He is a noble creature -- perhaps the noblest of the deer tribe -- and it is a boast of the backwoods 'hunter to have killed an elk; for such, as already mentioned, is the name erroneously given to this animal. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
One can date the beginnings of the change to the late 1960s, in the activist court of Warren Burger that brought the passion for civil rights to also bear, erroneously, on "equalizing" the field for religion. God Doesn't Follow the Law
Long - term since, we erroneously cooperative economy and collective economy confuse sth with sth else.
My biggest beef, though, is with the erroneous use of apostrophes to pluralize acronyms and abbreviations like CEOs, GIs, and CDs. Arianna Huffington: Arianna's Grammar Pet Peeve: The Apostrophe Crisis
The most celebrated and important of the representatives of this class is the martyrology commonly called Hieronymian, because it is erroneously attributed to The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Such a database would be a kludge of existing databases; databases that are incompatible, full of erroneous data, and unreliable.
By allowing earlier detection to erroneously imply longer survival.
But it must be taken into consideration that the above postulate is itself a product of Western race-egotism, urged by our belief in our own righteousness and fostered by a faith in ourselves which may be as erroneous as are most fond race fancies. The Yellow Peril
This was due to an erroneous assumption, i.e., that the stalk has a figure of revolution of a circular arc.
The Great Pyramid is attributed erroneously to Khufu (Cheops) – with the other two being those of Khafre (Chephren) and Menkaura (Mycerinus). Name Stargate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Such an unblinkered look at the liturgical reforms can, Msgr Ranjith writes, help us to be courageous in improving or changing that which was erroneously introduced and which appears to be incompatible with the true dignity of the Liturgy. Clear Words of Msgr Ranjith on the Flaws of the Postconciliar Liturgical Reforms and the Need for a Reform of the Reform
It is because of this that Descartes erroneously took the cogito to be the foundation of certainty in human knowledge, and our knowledge of body to be less clear and less immediate.
We say that that contention is in fact erroneous because it asks the wrong question.
Her paintings, for example, were not just created out of anguish, as the film erroneously suggests.
Sometimes they were erroneously styled "Waldenses" by their contemporaries. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
These hysteric affections are not necessarily attended with pain; though it sometimes happens, that pains, which originate from quiescence, afflict these patients, as the hemicrania, which has erroneously been termed the clavus hystericus; but which is owing solely to the inaction of the membranes of that part, like the pains attending the cold fits of intermittents, and which frequently returns like them at very regular periods of time. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
If Mr Stæhlin was not grossly imposed upon, what could induce him to publish a map so singularly erroneous, and in which many of these islands are jumbled together in regular confusion, without the least regard to truth; and yet he is pleased to call it _a very accurate little map_. [ A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
Like the barebacker who casually tosses away his health-or his partner's health-because he believes, quite erroneously, that "risky = sexy," the saddlebacker offers up her ass because she believes, quite erroneously, that she can get fucked in the ass-vigorously, religiously-and still be considered a virgin on her wedding night. News on Anchorage Press
At best it is naive, but at worst it is misleading and at times erroneous.
He also asked that an amendment be made to the incitement charge, which he admitted was erroneously worded.
However, statistical findings are often presented in manuscripts submitted for publication in misleading or erroneous ways.
I think a better reason not to rely on the D-dimer a high probability case is , is concern that a potentially fatal condition may be missed because of one erroneous negative biological lab test considering all the many ways lab tests can get screwed up. Does the pretest probablity of a condition really determine which test you should do?
In several instances an erroneously regulated protein kinase activity is responsible. Physiology or Medicine 1992 - Press Release
It's an archaic term that first appeared in 1812-and it's erroneously used to describe any lucky bounce, good or bad.
The author argued that the scission between nature and culture is actually a false one, based on erroneous assumptions about the underlying ‘constitution’ of these bipolar terms.
In tax year 2006, the latest year available, IRS made $10 billion to $12 billion in erroneous EITC payments, according to a study by the Treasury Department's inspector general. IRS lacks clout to enforce mandatory health insurance
It's also true that bigots assume that sexual preference is strictly a conscious decision, and use that erroneous assumption as a bludgeon against gay people as "immoral by choice", and as an article of faith in their efforts (usually destructive) to "deprogram" gay kids. Richardson Explains Remark On Homosexuality: "I Always Love The Word 'Choice'"
Were the pilots not warned of engine failure or did a system erroneously shut down the engines? Times, Sunday Times
There being nothing that teachers at a yeshiva love more than to argue a Jewish boy out of his erroneousness, he found himself the center of attention. Kalooki Nights
The RIAA has used questionable investigations, unsupported and erroneous legal theories, ex parte applications and communications with court personnel, violations of the rules against joinder of unrelated defendants, and abusive litigation tactics against individuals, many of whom are completely innocent, and none of whom should reasonably expect to find themselves forced to defend their personal use of computers in federal courts. RIAA litigation process attacked
Chavez suggested state television should broadcast a series of programs focusing on the strength of the economy as a way to debunk what he called erroneous predictions from analysts of more economic problems on the horizon. China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper
In current popular usuage it often means merely a corpus of erroneous but widely held beliefs.
It added: 'We apologise that this erroneous report was issued. Times, Sunday Times
He believed that prosperity could only be guaranteed if the country retained the imperial connection, and maintained that the Union had failed it because of its misapplication and not because of its inherent erroneousness.
This was the second show in recent weeks that tackled the issue of fire marshalls coming to erroneous conclusions in suspected arson cases, both of which turned out to be accidental fires. Dem Bones : Bev Vincent
I've questioned its fundamentality and erroneousness before. The Not-So Fundamental Attribution Error, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Yet, as it turns out, many of those foods have bad raps based on outdated and, sometimes, erroneous information.
The central issue is a phaenomenon as opposed to a second level phaenomenon upon phaenomena and their erroneous ambiguity in common language when not careful. Science Friday tomorrow -- Monkey Girl, Flock of Dodos - The Panda's Thumb
With strong internal controls, a church can more easily refute erroneous claims brought by any form of media. Christianity Today
Erroneous public perception of a massive cost-overrun was never addressed and as the project advanced, a publicity blackout added commensurate mystery.
Erroneous as it may be, the substitution involved more than just ignorance: an acorn is more or less shaped like an egg; and it is a seed, just like grains of corn. Communication
With respect to the larger culture Einstein's view of God and dice is a colorful reference to a non-scientific concept to make a philosophical scientific point even if it was subsequently shown erroneous. About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man
The U.S. government identified $98 billion in erroneous or fraudulent payments made during the 2009 fiscal year, up from $72 billion the previous year, White House budget chief Peter Orszag said yesterday. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: November 18, 2009
Erroneously though, he also states that the ‘Section Leader’ band on the fuselage is painted Red as is the engine cowling.
Although it made for lurid headlines, the media nickname was erroneous. THE HUNTING OF MAN
The US-led coalition has announced investigations into a series of reports of erroneous airstrikes in recent weeks. Times, Sunday Times
Those small amounts totaled about $50 million in erroneous data charges. FCC chair takes on cell phone 'bill shock' and early termination fees
People who come to see my solo shows have come to be entertained by the fact that I like ranting against erroneous belief systems. Times, Sunday Times
And please don't bother to ‘enlighten’ me of the erroneousness of it all, because I am VERY much aware of it.
It added: 'We apologise that this erroneous report was issued. Times, Sunday Times
But this is the doctrine of the antinomians: and the foundation of this they have laid in another wild, erroneous assertion, that every believer was actually justified from eternity, and that his faith is only a declaration of this to his conscience, but no ways effective of any alteration of his state or condition. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.

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