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erratical, a. and n.|ɛˈrætɪkəl|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. Wandering.
1620Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergy 200 This man's wit wanders with his erraticall synode. 1646J. Maine Agst. False Proph. 31 Those erraticall, uncertain, wandring night⁓fires..which shine only to lead Travellers out of the way. 1650Fuller Pisgah iv. ii. 20 The Midianites especially led erraticall lives. 1721–1800in Bailey.
2.
†a. Deviating from a given type.
b. Guided by no rule, capricious, irregular, strange.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. vi. 95 And therefore come not forth in generations erraticall, or different from each other. 1698W. Chilcot Evil Thoughts iv. (1851) 48 Unhappy conjunctions oftentimes prove the consequence of such erratical motions. 1854Ruskin Two Paths ii. 70 And enough bad teaching, to bring out very erratical results.
†B. n. = erratic B. 2. Obs.
1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. clxxxv. 796 Were the scurvy position of {saturn} in ♋ seconded with other malignant positures of the Erraticals.
Hence eˈrratically adv., in an erratic manner; irregularly, capriciously. eˈrraticalness.
1613M. Ridley Magn. Bodies 99 Varieth their direction diversely, and erratically. 1775in Ash. 1861Wilson & Geikie Mem. E. Forbes xii. 427 The remainder of this year was spent somewhat erratically. 1862Lytton Str. Story I. 166 The needle stirred, indeed, but erratically. 1884H. Sturmey Tricyclist's Indispens. Ann. 12 The machine is made to steer very erratically. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Erraticalness, wandring faculty. |