aberratev.
/ˈabəreɪt/, U.S. /ˈæbəˌreɪt/ 1. intransitive. To go astray; to deviate from a usual course or mode of behaviour. Also: to produce aberration.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > turn aside from a course of action
wanderc897
haltc900
flitc1175
misdrawc1300
err1303
convertc1374
foldc1380
stray1390
astray1393
swaver?a1400
to fall from ——a1425
recedec1450
depart1535
swervea1547
fag1555
flinch1578
exorbitate1600
extravagate1600
discoasta1677
tralineate1700
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > emission of light, radiation > emit rays of light [verb (intransitive)] > converge to a focus > not
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1749 B. Martin Lingua Britannica Reformata 55 Ab, is used before all vowels; as ab-alieno, to abalienate; ab-erro, to aberrate or wander.
1766 P. Dollond in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 55 The surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis.
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 274 I love occasionally to aberrate from routine.
1896 Free Thought Mag. Nov. 710 Each time then that the creature aberrates, his aberrations are corrected by the law.
1951 W. Faulkner Requiem for Nun (1975) ii. iii. 202 The Governor..has got to try to act like he regrets having to aberrate from being a gentleman.
2008 Capital Times (Madiscon, Wisconsin) (Nexis) 26 June 22 The pattern aberrates and changes, is fractured, dancers are drawing on each other's moves.
2. transitive. Chiefly U.S. To distort, to cause aberration in.
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1858 Trans. Amer. Med. Assoc. 11 714 The variolous virus so aberrates the action of the ganglionic system that, under its influence, the phenomena of smallpox are manifested.
1879 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 25 Oct. 6/1 This circumstance..may have caused despondency sufficient to aberrate her mind to such an extent as to cause her to purchase and swallow the deadly drug.
1910 Amer. Educ. Rev. Aug. 711/1 False learning to any extent gives no knowledge and is worse than ignorance, for it aberrates the intellect and begets the disgusting trait of self-conceit.
1998 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 18 June l9 Do these activities ever violate the law,..aberrate justice,..or curry return favors from the grateful media?
2008 R. Braga-Mele in D. F. Chang Mastering Refractive IOLs xxxv. 116/2 They do not aberrate the light as much as a diffractive lens does, which helps improve the patient's visual quality.
Derivatives
ˈaberrated adj. characterized by aberration; aberrant, abnormal, distorted.
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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
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [adjective]
unrightlyeOE
leasea900
falsec1175
untruec1370
untruefulc1380
erroneousc1400
fallacec1400
wrongc1420
unsubstantialc1455
wrongfulc1470
unrighteous1507
improper1531
perverse1531
mistaken1540
square1549
truthless1568
uncorrect1568
misconceiveda1612
errorous1633
swervinga1638
tralatitious1645
out of the way1676
wrongous1768
aberrated1834
aberrational1837
unsubstantiated1837
unevidenced1842
non-realistic1882
unsubstantiate1890
screwed-up1942
disauthentic1960
the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective]
misshapena1400
deformedc1400
forshapenc1440
misfashioned?a1513
inform1555
fromshapen1581
misformed1590
informous1610
disjointed1652
ill-formeda1672
abnormous1710
malformed1817
dislocated1830
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > refraction > [adjective] > refracted > not
unrefracted1650
inrefracteda1691
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1786 Public Advertiser 30 June 3/4 Comte Cagliostro..has sent 100 louis to Mademoiselle Oliva; this greatness of soul speaks for the other qualities of the aberrated philanthropist.
1834 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 20 56 This state sometimes terminating in aberrated rather than suspended perception.
1976 Sci. Amer. Aug. 81/2 A lens..converts a parallel beam of light into an intentionally distorted, or aberrated, wave front.
2009 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 31 Dec. 28 In for repairs for its aberrated steering.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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