offensācŭlum, i, n. [offenso], a striking against, a tripping, stumbling (postclass.).
I Lit.: crebris offensaculis contusa crura, Ap. Met. 9, 9, 6.—
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.