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offensĭo, ōnis, f. [1. offendo], a striking against any thing; a tripping, stumbling (class.).

  1. I. Lit.: pedis offensio, Cic. Div. 2, 40, 84; in plur.: offensiones pedum, Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 24: dentium, Lact. Opif. Dei, 10, 13.
    Absol.: offensione sonitūs, Vitr. 9, 8, 3.
    1. B. Transf., that against which one stumbles, a stumbling-block: ut nihil offensionis haberet, Cic. Univ. 6, 15.
  2. II. Trop.
    1. A. An offence given to any one; hence, disfavor, aversion, disgust, dislike, hatred, discredit, bad reputation, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 3, 9; id. Verr. 2, 5, 69, § 178 (for which: existimatio offensa nostri ordinis, id. ib. 2, 2, 47, § 117): sapiens praetor offensionem vitat aequalitate decernendi, id. Mur. 20, 41: suscipere invidiam atque offensionem apud aliquem, id. Verr. 2, 2, 55, § 137: in odium offensionemque populi Romani inruere, id. ib. 1, 12, 35: cadere, id. N. D. 1, 30, 85: offensionem excipere, id. Inv. 1, 21, 30: subire, Plin. 35, 4, 7, § 23: adferre, Cic. Att. 1, 17, 1: offensiones accendere, Tac. A. 2, 57: hoc apud alios offensionem habet, displeases them, Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 9.
    2. B. An offence which one receives; displeasure, vexation: habere ad res certas vitiosam offensionem atque fastidium, Cic. Tusc. 4, 10, 23: mihi majori offensioni sunt quam delectationi possessiunculae meae, give me more vexation than pleasure, id. Att. 13, 23, 3.
      1. 2. A complaint, indisposition; an accident, misfortune, mishap, failure: corporum offensiones, Cic. Tusc. 4, 14, 31: graves solent offensiones esse ex gravibus morbis, si qua culpa commissa est, id. Fam. 16, 10, 1: habet enim nihil quod in offensione deperdat, i.e. if he loses his cause, id. Div. in Caecil. 22, 71: offensiones belli, misfortunes, defeats, id. Imp. Pomp. 10, 28: offensionum et repulsarum ignominia, i.e. refusals, id. Off. 1, 21, 71.
    3. C. That which causes one to offend or sin, a stumbling-block (eccl. Lat.): unusquisque offensiones oculorum suorum abiciat, Vulg. Ezech. 20, 7: nemini dantes ullam offensionem, id. 2 Cor. 6, 3: lapis offensionis, id. 1 Pet. 2, 8 al.