exorbitation

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin exorbitatio, from exorbitō (“to go off the track, deviate”) +‎ -tio. === Noun === exorbitation (countable and uncountable, plural exorbitations) (now rare) The act of leaving the usual path or course; deviation. ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “exorbitation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.