Aberrate

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Aberrate \Ab"er*rate\, v. i. [L. aberratus, p. pr. of aberrare;
     ab + errare to wander. See {Err}.]
     To go astray; to diverge. [R.]
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           Their own defective and aberrating vision. --De


                                                    Quincey.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  aberrate
       v 1: diverge from the expected; "The President aberrated from
            being a perfect gentleman"
       2: diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce
          aberration; "The surfaces of the concave lens may be
          proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex
          lens"