0 to make a mistake or to do something wrong: --
He erred in agreeing to her appointment to the position.
1 to make a mistake: --
Furthermore, children erred in the direction of the rule overgeneralizing der.
For example, when asked to find the stickbug, the children who erred most often selected the stick, rather than the other (not stick-like) bug.
No more than one listener erred for any one pair.
Only later did management acknowledge that they had erred.
The warm-up was also designed to eliminate any children who were unable to follow the directions by erring on 2 of 3 trials.
The loss of market and therefore a livelihood was sure to bring any erring person to heel!
However, among those subjects who erred only once, the error tended to occur with the first pseudo-homonym presentation.
Where the causal models err, in my view, is in adopting a mode of explanation that strongly constrains the set of relevant contextual factors.
