Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A slip of the pen, a miswriting.
Examples
“Nonetheless, your resident Latin censor—dash it all—must have been dozing when he allowed a certain lapsus calami aka “slip of the pen” to pass his watchful eye.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lapsus calami’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Mistakes Were Made
scanno, typo, catachresis, spoonerism, lapsus linguae, lapsus calami, mispronunciation, faux pas, friendly fire, erratum, divorce, mea culpa and 19 more...
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Penmanship
Spencerian method, Palmer method, Platt R. Spencer, cursive, round hand, running hand, handwriting, stylus, pen, vellum, penmanship, script and 85 more...
mollusque See gladius. Mar 4, 2008
chained_bear "...he brought in the enormous cuttlefish, borne high on a silver charger, cried 'Make a lane, mates,'... and advanced to set it down... But his right foot trod on the pennant's end, his left caught in its substance, and down he came, flooding his captain with melted butter... and flinging the cuttlefish to the deck.
"'That was a lapsus calami indeed,' observed Stephen."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 138 Mar 4, 2008