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单词 erratic
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erraticadj.n.

/ɛˈratɪk/
Forms: Middle English erratike, erratyk, 1500s erratik, erratycke, 1600s erratique, 1600s–1700s erratick(e, 1500s– erratic.
Etymology: < Latin errāticus, < errāre to wander, err n. Compare French erratique.
A. adj. Wandering; prone to wander.
1. First used in certain special applications:
a. erratic star n. Obsolete a planet.
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the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > of older astronomy
planetc1300
erratic starc1374
erring starc1449
seven starsc1530
straying star1585
wanderer1615
erratical1647
erratic1715
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1824 He saw with full avisement The erratike sterres, herkening armonie.
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) v. i. 70 The seuene name couthe planetes, that ben cleped of clerkes sterres erratiks.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 37 Cosmaghraphie..sal declair the mouyng..of the sternis fixt and sternis erratic.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 74 The Erratick [stars] are seaven.
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 32 If..these..stones related to the seven erratic bodies in our spheres [i.e. the planets].
b. Said of pains, or diseases which are not fixed, but move from one part to another, as gout, rheumatism, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > spreading or invasive
runninga1382
walkinga1398
erratic1547
accessive1575
errant1621
vagrant1656
metastatic1822
ambulant1828
aggressive1851
proliferous1874
proliferative1888
metastasizing1906
invasive1926
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxiiiiv The Erratycke and commyxt feuer.
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 178 Materiall cause of all erratick pains.
1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 154 Costiveness, succeeded with a slow Erratic Fever.
1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 12 This Ailment, because it is erratick, all of a sudden removes to the other foot.
c. erratic poppy n. transl. Latin papaver erraticum (Pliny), identified by English writers with the Wild or Corn Poppy ( Papaver rhœas).
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > poppy
poppyeOE
wild poppya1300
red poppya1400
mecop1480
corn-rose1527
field poppy1597
redweed1609
darnel1612
cockrose?1632
canker1640
tell-love1640
rose poppy1648
erratic poppy1661
corn poppy1671
headwark1691
cop-rose1776
headachea1825
thunderbolt1847
thunder-flower1853
Iceland poppy1870
Greenland poppy1882
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 193 Endive, roses, and erratick poppies.
1672 T. Jordan London Triumphant in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 494 A wreath about her head, consisting of variety of grain..intermingled with..erratick Poppies.
2.
a. Wandering from place to place; vagrant; nomadic. Obsolete; shading off into 4.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering
wanderingc1000
erringa1340
waggeringa1382
vagant1382
vagabond1426
erroneousa1464
fugitive1481
wavering1487
vagrantc1522
gadding1545
roaming1566
roving1576
straggling1589
rambling?1609
wagand1614
wheelinga1616
gadling1616
vagring1619
erratical1620
vaguing1627
erratic1656
planetical1656
waif1724
vagrarious1795
stravaiging1825
vagarious1882
pirooting1958
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Erratique, that wanders or creeps this way and that way.
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 74 Thro' the vast waves the dreadful wonders move, Hence named Erratic by the Gods above.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 141. ⁋10 When fortune did not favour my erratick industry, I gleaned jests at home.
a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 707 This erratick justice [when the courts travelled with the kings] must have been productive of infinite inconvenience to the litigants.
1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi ii. 175 Those savages although erratic must remain long enough in one position to cultivate this grain.
1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry II. 220 At this period Delos was supposed to have floated in an erratic state on the surface of the waters.
1830 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord (new ed.) I. 233 No entreaty could induce him to alter his erratic way of life.
b. Biology.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > [adjective]
locomobile1833
mobile1849
erratic1855
motile1857
1855 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 2) xiii. 321 The first period of their existence, during which they lead an erratic life, then closes.
1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 99 They are rather migratory in their habits, but not erratic, for they seem to go over the same course week after week.
3. erratic block n. (also erratic boulder) Geology a stray mass of rock, foreign to the surrounding strata, that has been transported from its original site, apparently by glacial action.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > mass > [noun] > of rock > stray mass
erratic blocka1828
erratic1849
floating reef1869
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > a rock > boulder
stonerockeOE
rochec1300
rocka1413
calionc1459
outlier1610
boother1680
tumbler1789
boulder1815
lost stone1819
erratic blocka1828
erratic blocka1828
lost rock1831
gibber1834
tumbling stone1857
foundling-stone1892
a1828 W. Phillips Treat. Geol. (Humble) The magnitude of the transported rocks is such as to deserve the name of erratic blocks.
1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria i. 15 To the unskilled eye, Russia presents only a monotonous and undulating surface, chiefly occupied by acumulations of mud, sand, and erratic blocks.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xi. 366 Erratic boulders, and scored rocks scored by drifted icebergs and coast-ice, plainly reveal a former cold period.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) I. viii. 270 We crossed Creag Dhubh, and examined the erratic blocks upon its sides.
4. Irregular or uncertain in movement; having no fixed course.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adjective] > moving without fixed course
vaganta1382
scatteringc1450
stragglinga1560
wandering1590
undirecteda1599
wayless1605
planetary1607
rambling?1609
exorbitant1613
exorbitating1632
random1655
unconducteda1677
devious1735
truant1791
wild1810
erratic1841
directionless1860
scrolloping1923
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xlvii. 97 My erratic wanderings.
1854 H. Moseley Lect. Astron. (ed. 4) lxxviii. 218 The attraction of Jupiter..upon this erratic comet.
1879 G. W. Cable Old Creole Days 200 Short remnants of the wind now and then came down the narrow street in erratic puffs.
5. Irregular or eccentric in conduct, habit, or opinion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour
irregular1395
unformalc1449
informalc1475
disordered1561
monstrous1568
odd1577
irregulate1579
exorbitant1613
free-spirited1613
exorbitating1632
inconformable1633
extravagant1650
inconform1659
eccentric1685
unconformable1702
outrageous1778
unconventional1840
erratic1841
kinky1844
Bohemian1846
radical1869
Bohemic1874
nonconforming1899
hard case1904
jazz1917
offbeat1922
deviant1935
deviate1945
oddball1945
left field1951
way out1955
boho1958
non-conformant1960
sideways1969
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical
startfulmood?a1300
wildc1350
volage?a1366
gerfulc1374
geryc1386
wild-headeda1400
skittishc1412
gerish1430
shittle1440
shittle-witted1448
runningc1449
volageous1487
glaikit1488
fantasious1490
giggish1523
tickle or light of the sear?1530
fantastical1531
wayward1531
wantona1538
peevish1539
light-headed1549
humoral1573
unstaid1579
shittle-headed1580
toy-headed1581
fangled1587
humorous1589
choiceful1591
toyish1598
tricksy1598
skip-brain1603
capricious1605
humoursome1607
planetary1607
vertiginous1609
whimsieda1625
ingiddied1628
whimsy1637
toysome1638
cocklec1640
mercurial1647
garish1650
maggoty1650
kicksey-winseya1652
freakish1653
humourish1653
planetic1653
whimsical1653
shittle-braineda1655
freaking1663
maggoty-headed1667
maggot-pated1681
hoity-toity1690
maggotish1693
maggot-headeda1695
whimsy-headed1699
fantasque1701
crotchetly1702
quixotic1718
volatile1719
holloweda1734
conundrumical1743
flighty1768
fly-away1775
dizzy1780
whimmy1785
shy1787
whimming1787
quirky1789
notional1791
tricksome1815
vagarish1819
freakful1820
faddy1824
moodish1827
mawky1837
erratic1841
rockety1843
quirkish1848
maggoty-pated1850
crotchetya1854
freaksome1854
faddish1855
vagrom1882
fantasied1883
vagarisome1883
on-and-offish1888
tricksical1889
freaky1891
hobby-horsical1893
quirksome1896
temperamental1907
up and down1960
untogether1969
fanciful-
fantastic-
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 199 The genius of Dee was as erratic as the course of life he shortly fell into.
1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 23 To gather up those erratic spirits that now stand aloof from any religious school.
1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. 17 He did not appear at luncheon, but..he is always erratic.
B. n.
1. An erratic person:
a. A vagabond; a wanderer. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer
striker1393
roamerc1400
wandererc1440
whirlerc1440
gangrela1450
fluttererc1450
straggler1530
gadlinga1542
ranger1560
rover1568
fugitive1570
rangler1575
fleeter1581
extravagant1583
scatterling1590
vagranta1592
rambler1624
erratic1669
stravaiger1821
multivagant1895
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. iii. 35 Euripides cals the Bacchic Priests..Erratics, or wanderers.
1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry III. 340 The canonized erratic vouchsafed to inform Eadmer that he disapproved of returning to his old station.
b. One who is eccentric in modes of action, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > deviation from normal standards of behaviour > one who
erratic1623
exorbitant1627
inconformable1633
non-conformant1654
original1675
nonconformista1677
eccentric1832
originalist1835
Bohemian1843
oddball1943
antisocial1945
left fielder1953
boho1958
alternative1982
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Erraticke, a Rogue.
1835 Fraser's Mag. 12 274 It is..only by following the erratics through their concentric courses that we can trace out the manifold ways and vices of man.
2. An erratic star, a planet. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > of older astronomy
planetc1300
erratic starc1374
erring starc1449
seven starsc1530
straying star1585
wanderer1615
erratical1647
erratic1715
1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. ii. ii. 35 Our Sun doth [warm] the Erraticks encompassing it.
3.
a. Geology. An erratic block.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > mass > [noun] > of rock > stray mass
erratic blocka1828
erratic1849
floating reef1869
1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria xx. 505 The huge erratics of the later cold period.
1882 W. B. Dawkins in Nature 31 Aug. 436/2 Icebergs, melting as they passed southwards, deposited..erratics.
b. In combinations.
ΚΠ
1881 G. M. Dawson in Nature 27 Jan. 291/1 The drift-covered and erratic-strewn character of the country.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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