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1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 523 In the diseases which we call Dilirium, that is, an aberration of the minde and in the Letargy which are affects of the Braine there is no paine at all.

1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. xiii. 148 Nor does Hypocondrick fits, or the first degrees of madness, defend against this Confiscation, but a total aberration from reason, cannot but defend.

1730 A. Bayne Inst. Criminal Law Scotl. 103 Although Self-murder must needs be owing to some Degree of Madness, since Nature, not disordered, carefully seeks the Preservation of Life; yet ought we to distinguish such Disorder from a total Aberration of Mind.

1790 J. Earl in P. Pott Chirurg. Observ. (new ed.) I. p. xxxvi My mind has great propensity to aberration; and I find myself much inclined to talk nonsense, unless I studiously collect my thoughts.

1823 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. VI. 312 Her affliction seemed to produce occasional aberrations of intellect.

1829 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. x. 354 Shades of mental aberration have afterwards occurred.

1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein II. 554 The slightest aberration in his [sc. Napoleon's] mind, might be represented by the complete transformation of Europe.

1921 tr. C. Sabourin Rational Treatm. Pulmonary Tuberculosis iii. iv. 426 A few words concerning phthisiomaniacs—persons suffering from an aberration derived from phthisiophobia.

1957 J. Bishop Day Christ Died (1959) 86 Jesus must have been a naïve religious who, through mental aberration, believed that he was God.

2009 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 4 Nov. 7/2 Obviously, she had suffered a mental aberration of some sort.