Associations to the word «Aberrate»
Adjective
Adverb
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Wiktionary
ABERRATE, verb. (intransitive) To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from. [mid 18the century]
ABERRATE, verb. (transitive) To distort; to cause aberration of. [late 19th century]
Dictionary definition
ABERRATE, verb. Diverge from the expected; "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman".
ABERRATE, verb. 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".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.