offence Copy link Outline I. Displeasure; also that which is calculated to displease1. offensio (strictly, the act of wounding any one's feelings2. offensa (the state or position of one who has given offence, esp. to a great man, and incurred his displeasure)II. Cause of stumblingIII. Something done amiss1. dēlictum or peccātum (gen. term)2. noxa (criminal) • offence: I. Displeasure; also that which is calculated to displease: 1. offensio (strictly, the act of wounding any one's feelings: also, the state of mind thus caused in another): to avoid giving o. (making oneself unpopular), offensionem vitare, Cic. Mur. 20, init.: to take and to banish it from the mind, of. accipere atque deponere, id. Att. 1, 17, ad init.: to cause any one so great o., alicui offensionem tam gravem [et commutationem tantam voluntatis] afferre, ib. (But to give o., must be expr. by offendo: v. to offend.) 2. offensa (the state or position of one who has given offence, esp. to a great man, and incurred his displeasure): Cic. Att. 9, 2 (magna in of. sum apud Pompeium, i. e. am under his displeasure): Suet. Vesp. 4. Phr.: I saw he had taken o. at something, videbam subesse [ei] nescio quid opinionis incommodae, Cic. Att. 1, 17: to refuse to take o., injurias tolerare, ib.: easy to take o. and easy to drop it, irritabilis et placabilis, ib.: without o., bonâ veniâ (v. leave, subs.). See also injury, affront. II. Cause of stumbling: *scandălum (Gr. σκάνδαλον): Vulg. Matt. xviii. 7, etc.: v. stumbling-block. III. Something done amiss: 1. dēlictum or peccātum (gen. term): Cic.: Hor.: v. sin, fault. 2. noxa (criminal): Caes. B. G. 6, 16: Dig.: v. crime. Phr.: it is an o. against morality, contra bonos mores est: v. contrary to.
OFFENCE Copy link • OFFENCEDispleasure given, in jury done, injuria (injury done; when perspicuity allows it, the person who does the injury, and the person to whom the injury is done, may be placed in the genitive; else say, injuria alicui illata, injuria ab aliquo illata): offensio, offensa (offence; the former, which one feels or receives; the latter, of which one is guilty) ignominia (general term reproach expressed, whether deserved or not): contumelia (reproach unjustly expressed, insult): molestia (unpleasant, of a thing as burdensome or annoying): dolor (the painful feeling of offence). A grievous offence, injuria acerba; offensio gravis; dolor gravis or acerbus: without offence, sine ulla contumelia. Displeasure received, injury sustained, offensio. To give offence to anyone, offendere aliquem or apud aliquem; in offensionem alicujus incurrere or cadere: I have given great offence to someone, in magna offensa sum apud aliquem: to give great offence by one’s mode of life, esse pessimi exempli: to take offence, offensionem accipere (opposed to offensionem deponere): to take offence at a person or thing, in aliquo or in aliqua re offendere (to have something to object to in a person or thing): fastidire aliquem or aliquid, or in aliqua re (tofeel disgust, to disdain; Vid: Liv., 4, 3, and 34, 5 extr.; Cic., Mil., 16, 42): to avoid offence, offensionem effugere. If I may say so without offence, bona hoc venia tua dixerim; pace tua dixerim. Cause of offending, stumbling block, res mali (pessimi) exempli.