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Definition of Aberrate

1. Verb. Diverge from the expected. "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman"

2. Verb. Diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration. "The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens"

Definition of Aberrate

1. v. i. To go astray; to diverge.

Definition of Aberrate

1. Verb. (intransitive) To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from). ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To distort; to cause aberration of. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aberrate

1. to deviate [v ABERRATED, ABERRATING, ABERRATES] - See also: deviate

Medical Definition of Aberrate

1. To go astray; to diverge. "Their own defective and aberrating vision." (De Quincey) Origin: L. Aberratus, p.pr. Of aberrare; ab + errare to wander. See Err. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aberrate

aberrant aberrant artery aberrant bile ducts aberrant bundles aberrant complex aberrant ducts aberrant ductules aberrant ganglion aberrant goiter aberrant haemoglobin

aberrant regeneration aberrant ventricular conduction aberrantly aberrants aberrate (current term) aberrated aberrates aberrating aberration aberrational

aberrationless aberrations aberrative aberred aberring aberrometer aberrs aberuncate aberuncated

Literary usage of Aberrate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"Neither does aberrate or variate which has also been suggested. Perhaps abnormal is abstractly the best word, but this, too, has now unpleasant associations ..."

2. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"80), quit commonplaces. abire magistrate, to leave one's office. abstinere iniuria, to refrain from wrong. (2) a proposito aberrate (Fin. v. ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"Why, sir, I love occasionally to aberrate from routine. It a- wakens and varies my ideas. The streets are almost silent just now. ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1829)
"When sound religious principles produce a struggle in the mind, which is beginning to aberrate, the contest generally terminates in suicide. ..."

5. Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar by Wilhelm Gesenius, Thomas Jefferson Conant, Emil Roediger (1856)
"... there spake Miriam and Aaron : Gen. xxxiii. 7, xliv. 14. More rare is the singular form, after more than one subject ; Prov. xxvii. 9, aberrate? ..."

6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1831)
"... classical antiquity, we find our way strewn thickly with allure. ments, in which, though imagination delights to aberrate, yet judgment fears to enter. ..."

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