noun
offensācŭlum
Meaning
- a striking against
offensācŭlum, i, n. offenso,
I. a striking against, a tripping, stumbling (postclass.).
I. Lit.:
crebris offensaculis contusa crura, App. M. 9, p. 221, 3.—II. Transf., the object against which one stumbles, a stumbling-block:
lapis ecce nostro fixus offensaculo est, Prud. Apoth. 45; so, adversarius nostris offensacula pedibus latenter opponit, Lact. Opt. D. 1.