aberrate

== English == === Etymology === From Latin aberrātus, perfect passive participle of aberrō (“wander, stray or deviate from”), formed from ab (“from, away from”) + errō (“stray”). === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˈæb.ə.ɹeɪt/ === Verb === aberrate (third-person singular simple present aberrates, present participle aberrating, simple past and past participle aberrated) (intransitive) To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from. [mid 18th century] 1765, Peter Dollond, letter to James Short dated 7 February, 1765, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Volume 55, London, 1766, p. 55,[1] […] the surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis […] 1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Lake Reminiscences: No. V, Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge” originally published in Tait’s Magazine, August 1839, in David Masson (editor), The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, London: A. & C. Black, 1896, Volume 2, Chapter 5, pp. 340-341,[3] […] 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. (transitive) To distort; to cause aberration of. [late 19th century] 1893, Bret Harte, Sally Dows, Chapter 6, in Sally Dows and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 104,[5] He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action. 1950, Louis S. London, Sexual Deviations, cited in reviews in Time, 17 April, 1950 (“Medicine: The Abnormal”)[8] and Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, Volume 43, August, 1950, p. 802,[9] […] 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). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== aberr aberrance aberrant aberration ==== Translations ==== === References === == Italian == === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== aberrate inflection of aberrare: second-person plural present indicative second-person plural imperative === Etymology 2 === ==== Participle ==== aberrate f pl feminine plural of aberrato == Latin == === Verb === aberrāte second-person plural present active imperative of aberrō == Spanish == === Verb === aberrate second-person singular voseo imperative of aberrar combined with te