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aberrant, a.|əˈbɛrənt|
[ad. L. aberrant-em, pr. pple. of aberrā-re. See aberr.]
1. lit. Wandering away or straying from a defined path; hence fig. diverging or deviating from any moral standard.
1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. (1878) iv. ii. 123 Such a choice must argue Aberrant senses, or degenerate blood. 1864Cockran tr. Pressensé's Reply to Renan 83 People see in it the signs of a diseased, aberrant genius.
2. Deviating widely from the ordinary or natural type, exceptional, irregular, abnormal; especially in Nat. Hist.
1830Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. iii. xxxvii. 322 If there be such proneness in each aberrant form to merge into the normal type. 1835Kirby Habits & Inst. An. II. xvi. 74 The usual oral organs, though a little aberrant in their structure. 1839Hallam Lit. Eur. i. viii. §28 These aberrant lines are much more common in the dramatic blank verse of the seventeenth century. 1857H. Miller Sch. & Schoolm. viii. 167 His mother, though of a devout family of the old Scottish type, was an aberrant specimen. 1878M. Foster Physiology iv. v. 560 The events are much more characteristic in the typical female than in the aberrant male. 1881Westcott & Hort N.T. in Greek II. 240 It would be..difficult to derive the neutral reading from any coalescence of the aberrant readings.
Hence aˈberrantly adv.
a1878G. G. Scott Recoll. (1879) vii. 291 Skidmore followed my design, but somewhat aberrantly. 1929New Statesman 31 Aug. 614/1 Most unfortunately we have aberrantly accepted a mandate for Palestine. |