aberrate

Etymology
From, perfect passive participle of , formed from +.

Verb

 * 1)  To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from.
 * 2) * 1765,, letter to dated 7 February, 1765, in , Volume 55, London, 1766, p. 55,
 * the surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis
 * 1) * 1839,, “Lake Reminiscences: No. V, Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge” originally published in , August 1839, in (editor), The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, London: A. & C. Black, 1896, Volume 2, Chapter 5, pp. 340-341,
 * the barriers, which to them limit the view, and give to it, together with the contraction, all the distinctness and definite outline of limitation, are, in nine cases out of ten, the product of their own defective and aberrating vision, and not real barriers at all.
 * 1)  To distort; to cause aberration of.
 * 2) * 1893,, Sally Dows, Chapter 6, in Sally Dows and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 104,
 * He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action.
 * 1) * 1950, Louis S. London, Sexual Deviations, cited in reviews in , 17 April, 1950 (“Medicine: The Abnormal”) and Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Volume 43, August, 1950, p. 802,
 * sexually aberrated individuals can be treated most successfully via the method of psycho-analytic psychotherapy.
 * 1) * 1950, Louis S. London, Sexual Deviations, cited in reviews in , 17 April, 1950 (“Medicine: The Abnormal”) and Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Volume 43, August, 1950, p. 802,
 * sexually aberrated individuals can be treated most successfully via the method of psycho-analytic psychotherapy.
 * 1) * 1950, Louis S. London, Sexual Deviations, cited in reviews in , 17 April, 1950 (“Medicine: The Abnormal”) and Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Volume 43, August, 1950, p. 802,
 * sexually aberrated individuals can be treated most successfully via the method of psycho-analytic psychotherapy.

Usage notes

 * The transitive sense is chiefly used in the past participle form (as aberrated).

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