Definition of Lapsus

1. Noun. A slip, lapse, or error.[ Random House Unabridged Dictionary 1997][ Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003] ¹

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Definition of Lapsus

1. a mistake [n LAPSUS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lapsus

lapse
lapse rate
lapsed
lapser
lapsers
lapses
lapsful
lapsible
lapsided
lapsing
lapstone
lapstones
lapstrake
lapstrakes
lapstreak
lapsus (current term)
lapsus calami
lapsus digiti
lapsus digitorum
lapsus linguae
lapsus linguæ
lapsus muris
lapsus plumae
lapsus plumæ
laptop
laptop computer
laptop computers
laptopless
laptoplike
laptops

Literary usage of Lapsus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"lapsus CALAMI WILL there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse Of a prose which knows no reason And an ..."

2. Celebrities I Have Known: With Episodes, Political, Social, Sporting, and by William Pitt Lennox (1876)
"Among the numerous instances in which the lapsus linguae of performers have convulsed the audiences with laughter, may be mentioned that which oc- cured to ..."

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