Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Aberrate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aberrate \Ab"er*rate\, v. i. [L. aberratus, p. pr. of aberrare;
ab + errare to wander. See {Err}.]
To go astray; to diverge. [R.]
Their own defective and aberrating vision. --De
Quincey.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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, as in optics; "The surfaces of the concave
lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal
to the convex lens"
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