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Definition of Deviators
1. deviator [n] - See also: deviator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deviators
Literary usage of Deviators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Electric Light, Its Production and Use: Embodying Plain Directions for the by John W. Urquhart (1891)
"The C terminals of the light-giving machines are connected to the lower bars of
a commutator, the upper bars of which are connected through deviators ..."
2. The Revelation of St John: Expounded for Those who Search the Scriptures by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1851)
"The deviators are quite at variance among themselves, while the statement ...
The deviators shew also by their vacillation and wavering 1 Vitringa, however, ..."
3. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"... for discovering plots and conspiracies, was not a much overcharged satire
against the whig deviators from the salutary strictness of Edward lll. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Nor were the rationalistic opinions of the Averroists without their value, though
the church condemned these deviators from her discipline as ..."
5. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Record and a Study by William Sharp (1882)
"... Plato, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare—do not stand forth in their respective
generations as deviators from the intellectual life of their fellow-men, ..."
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