单词 | aberrant |
释义 | aberrantadj. 1. Subject to or characterized by aberration; abnormal, deviant, nonstandard; deviating or diverging from (formerly also †fro) a recognized course, standard, or norm. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > [adjective] scrithingOE aberrantc1536 tripping1577 devious1633 sinuous1850 society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > [adjective] > going astray scrithingOE sinister1526 aberrantc1536 strayed1544 straying1553 exorbitant1556 erroneous1595 wandering1606 devious1633 theat1682 c1536 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. (1821) II. 516 Aberrant fra virtuous discipline. 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 186 Then is the Popes dealing both aberrant from Diuinity, and cruell to his Catholikes. 1776 T. Pownall Let. to A. Smith 46 That the monopoly, raising the rates of mercantile profit, discourages the improvement of land, is still more aberrant from the line of reason. 1798 R. H. Southwell Intellect. Freedom iii. 76 The pristine rectitude and aberrant conduct of man. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iv. ii. 195 Such a choice must argue Aberrant senses, or degenerate blood. 1864 Cockran tr. E. de Pressensé Reply to Renan 83 People see in it the signs of a diseased, aberrant genius. 1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence (1905) I. v. 335 Degenerate children are..prone to show aberrant tendencies, often sexually perverted at puberty. 1967 R. A. Crossland Immigrants from North xxvii. 13 Such a monumental document might..have been written in a script less aberrant from the main line of Mesopotamian cuneiform. 1993 Rolling Stone 18 Feb. 41/3 Any kind of aberrant behavior, especially by a celebrity, is noteworthy to a show like this. 2. Deviating markedly from the ordinary or natural type, exceptional, irregular; pathological. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective] > deviating from rule or standard exorbitant1534 unorthodox1629 aberrant1778 aberrated1786 divergent1801 radical1869 nonstandard1870 non-regular1896 non-regulation1953 non-conformant1960 alternative1962 sideways1969 alternate1970 marginala1988 alt1988 1778 C. Erskine tr. H. D. Gaubius Inst. Medicinal Pathol. 316 The aberrant evacuation..of the blood by other places..is produced from a perverted direction of the humours. 1784 T. Dewell Philos. Physic xxxv. 36 By confining medical views to two aberrant causes and effects only..all other distinctions will appear totally unnecessary. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvi. 74 The usual oral organs, though a little aberrant in their structure. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. viii. 595 These aberrant lines are much more common in the dramatic blank verse of the seventeenth century. 1857 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters viii. 167 His mother, though of a devout family of the old Scottish type, was an aberrant specimen. 1878 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) iv. v. 560 The events are much more characteristic in the typical female than in the aberrant male. 1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea xvi. 223 Spence Bate regards the Schizopods as an aberrant group of his Macrura dendrobranchiata. 1926 Amer. Mercury July 379/2 The connective tissue responds by seeking to wall in the aberrant epithelial tissue. 1961 W. Brandon Indians 335/2 Another group speaking a highly aberrant Algonquian language..were the Atsina. 1970 J. Didion Play it as it Lays 5 Kate has..an aberrant chemical in her brain. 2004 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 210/1 Several genes associated with human tumors underwent ‘aberrant activation’. Derivatives aˈberrantly adv. ΚΠ 1815 Monthly Mag. Aug. 2/2 Aberrantly. 1840 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 593/2 Of the power of conscience, no manifestation, I may, though rather aberrantly, add, can hardly be more striking. 1929 New Statesman 31 Aug. 614/1 Most unfortunately we have aberrantly accepted a mandate for Palestine. 1997 Countryman Spring 102/1 Aberrantly coloured birds are at particular risk of predation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1536 |
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