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exorbitate, v. Obs. or arch.|ɛgˈzɔːbɪteɪt|
[f. L. exorbitāt- ppl. stem of exorbitāre: see exorbitant.]
intr. To deviate from the usual course; to stray.
1600Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 116 We are ready to exorbitate. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. i. (ed. 2) 5 The Law..ought to bridle him [the King] when he exorbitates from the Law. 1643Hunton Treat. Monarchy i. iv. (1689) 28 If one exorbitate, the power of restraint..should be in the rest. 1651Smith in Fuller's Abel Rediv. 572 Such as least exorbitate [printed exoribitate] from the Doctrine..of the Church of Rome. 1671H. Stubbe Reply 31 When other Mens Flatteries did thus Exorbitate, etc.
b. Of heavenly bodies: To deviate from the usual orbit; to follow an erratic course.
1693Bentley Atheism viii. 12 They would..sometimes have exorbitated beyond the distance of Saturn. 1747Hervey Medit. II. 231 The heavenly bodies would exorbitate into wild confusion. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 22 To describe the earth as in imminent danger of exorbitating.
Hence † eˈxorbitating ppl. a.
1632Lithgow Trav. x. 487 No inference can prye, nor strange illation prooue, In your exorbitating [printed exorbitanting] braines, my period I did mooue. 1644Hunton Vind. Treat. Monarchy vii. 55 Parliament [is]..bound to resist..the destruction of liberties, by exorbitating Princes. 1659H. More Immort. Soul (1662) 175 Rather the work of Art then of exorbitating Nature. |