erraticadj.n.

/ɛˈratɪk/

Forms: Middle English erratike, erratyk, 1500s erratik, erratycke, 1600s erratique, 1600s–1700s erratick(e, 1500s– erratic.

Etymology: < Latin errāticus, < errāre to wander, err n. Compare French erratique.

A. adj. Wandering; prone to wander.

1. First used in certain special applications:

†a. erratic star n. Obsolete a planet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > of older astronomy

planetc1300

erratic starc1374

erring starc1449

seven starsc1530

straying star1585

wanderer1615

erratical1647

erratic1715

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1824 He saw with full avisement The erratike sterres, herkening armonie.

1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) v. i. 70 The seuene name couthe planetes, that ben cleped of clerkes sterres erratiks.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 37 Cosmaghraphie..sal declair the mouyng..of the sternis fixt and sternis erratic.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 74 The Erratick [stars] are seaven.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 32 If..these..stones related to the seven erratic bodies in our spheres [i.e. the planets].

b. Said of pains, or diseases which are not fixed, but move from one part to another, as gout, rheumatism, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > spreading or invasive

runninga1382

walkinga1398

erratic1547

accessive1575

errant1621

vagrant1656

metastatic1822

ambulant1828

aggressive1851

proliferous1874

proliferative1888

metastasizing1906

invasive1926

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxiiii^v The Erratycke and commyxt feuer.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 178 Materiall cause of all erratick pains.

1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 154 Costiveness, succeeded with a slow Erratic Fever.

1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 12 This Ailment, because it is erratick, all of a sudden removes to the other foot.

†c. erratic poppy n. transl. Latin papaver erraticum (Pliny), identified by English writers with the Wild or Corn Poppy ( Papaver rhœas).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > poppy

poppyeOE

wild poppya1300

red poppya1400

mecop1480

corn-rose1527

field poppy1597

redweed1609

darnel1612

cockrose?1632

canker1640

tell-love1640

rose poppy1648

erratic poppy1661

corn poppy1671

headwark1691

cop-rose1776

headachea1825

thunderbolt1847

thunder-flower1853

Iceland poppy1870

Greenland poppy1882

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 193 Endive, roses, and erratick poppies.

1672 T. Jordan London Triumphant in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 494 A wreath about her head, consisting of variety of grain..intermingled with..erratick Poppies.

†2.

a. Wandering from place to place; vagrant; nomadic. Obsolete; shading off into 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering

wanderingc1000

erringa1340

waggeringa1382

vagant1382

vagabond1426

erroneousa1464

fugitive1481

wavering1487

vagrantc1522

gadding1545

roaming1566

roving1576

straggling1589

rambling?1609

wagand1614

wheelinga1616

gadling1616

vagring1619

erratical1620

vaguing1627

erratic1656

planetical1656

waif1724

vagrarious1795

stravaiging1825

vagarious1882

pirooting1958

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Erratique, that wanders or creeps this way and that way.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 74 Thro' the vast waves the dreadful wonders move, Hence named Erratic by the Gods above.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 141. ⁋10 When fortune did not favour my erratick industry, I gleaned jests at home.

a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 707 This erratick justice [when the courts travelled with the kings] must have been productive of infinite inconvenience to the litigants.

1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi ii. 175 Those savages although erratic must remain long enough in one position to cultivate this grain.

1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry II. 220 At this period Delos was supposed to have floated in an erratic state on the surface of the waters.

1830 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord (new ed.) I. 233 No entreaty could induce him to alter his erratic way of life.

b. Biology.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > [adjective]

locomobile1833

mobile1849

erratic1855

motile1857

1855 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 2) xiii. 321 The first period of their existence, during which they lead an erratic life, then closes.

1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 99 They are rather migratory in their habits, but not erratic, for they seem to go over the same course week after week.

3. erratic block n. (also erratic boulder) Geology a stray mass of rock, foreign to the surrounding strata, that has been transported from its original site, apparently by glacial action.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > mass > [noun] > of rock > stray mass

erratic blocka1828

erratic1849

floating reef1869

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > a rock > boulder

stonerockeOE

rochec1300

rocka1413

calionc1459

outlier1610

boother1680

tumbler1789

boulder1815

lost stone1819

erratic blocka1828

lost rock1831

gibber1834

tumbling stone1857

foundling-stone1892

a1828 W. Phillips Treat. Geol. (Humble) The magnitude of the transported rocks is such as to deserve the name of erratic blocks.

1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria i. 15 To the unskilled eye, Russia presents only a monotonous and undulating surface, chiefly occupied by acumulations of mud, sand, and erratic blocks.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xi. 366 Erratic boulders, and scored rocks scored by drifted icebergs and coast-ice, plainly reveal a former cold period.

1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) I. viii. 270 We crossed Creag Dhubh, and examined the erratic blocks upon its sides.

4. Irregular or uncertain in movement; having no fixed course.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adjective] > moving without fixed course

vaganta1382

scatteringc1450

stragglinga1560

wandering1590

undirecteda1599

wayless1605

planetary1607

rambling?1609

exorbitant1613

exorbitating1632

random1655

unconducteda1677

devious1735

truant1791

wild1810

erratic1841

directionless1860

scrolloping1923

1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xlvii. 97 My erratic wanderings.

1854 H. Moseley Lect. Astron. (ed. 4) lxxviii. 218 The attraction of Jupiter..upon this erratic comet.

1879 G. W. Cable Old Creole Days 200 Short remnants of the wind now and then came down the narrow street in erratic puffs.

5. Irregular or eccentric in conduct, habit, or opinion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour

irregular1395

unformalc1449

informalc1475

disordered1561

monstrous1568

odd1577

irregulate1579

exorbitant1613

free-spirited1613

exorbitating1632

inconformable1633

extravagant1650

inconform1659

eccentric1685

unconformable1702

outrageous1778

unconventional1840

erratic1841

kinky1844

Bohemian1846

radical1869

Bohemic1874

nonconforming1899

hard case1904

jazz1917

offbeat1922

deviant1935

deviate1945

oddball1945

left field1951

way out1955

boho1958

non-conformant1960

sideways1969

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical

startfulmood?a1300

wildc1350

volage?a1366

gerfulc1374

geryc1386

wild-headeda1400

skittishc1412

gerish1430

shittle1440

shittle-witted1448

runningc1449

volageous1487

glaikit1488

fantasious1490

giggish1523

tickle or light of the sear?1530

fantastical1531

wayward1531

wantona1538

peevish1539

light-headed1549

humoral1573

unstaid1579

shittle-headed1580

toy-headed1581

fangled1587

humorous1589

choiceful1591

toyish1598

tricksy1598

skip-brain1603

capricious1605

humoursome1607

planetary1607

vertiginous1609

whimsieda1625

ingiddied1628

whimsy1637

toysome1638

cocklec1640

mercurial1647

garish1650

maggoty1650

kicksey-winseya1652

freakish1653

humourish1653

planetic1653

whimsical1653

shittle-braineda1655

freaking1663

maggoty-headed1667

maggot-pated1681

hoity-toity1690

maggotish1693

maggot-headeda1695

whimsy-headed1699

fantasque1701

crotchetly1702

quixotic1718

volatile1719

holloweda1734

conundrumical1743

flighty1768

fly-away1775

dizzy1780

whimmy1785

shy1787

whimming1787

quirky1789

notional1791

tricksome1815

vagarish1819

freakful1820

faddy1824

moodish1827

mawky1837

erratic1841

rockety1843

quirkish1848

maggoty-pated1850

crotchetya1854

freaksome1854

faddish1855

vagrom1882

fantasied1883

vagarisome1883

on-and-offish1888

tricksical1889

freaky1891

hobby-horsical1893

quirksome1896

temperamental1907

up and down1960

untogether1969

fanciful-

fantastic-

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 199 The genius of Dee was as erratic as the course of life he shortly fell into.

1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 23 To gather up those erratic spirits that now stand aloof from any religious school.

1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. 17 He did not appear at luncheon, but..he is always erratic.

B. n.

1. An erratic person:

†a. A vagabond; a wanderer. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer

striker1393

roamerc1400

wandererc1440

whirlerc1440

gangrela1450

fluttererc1450

straggler1530

gadlinga1542

ranger1560

rover1568

fugitive1570

rangler1575

fleeter1581

extravagant1583

scatterling1590

vagranta1592

rambler1624

erratic1669

stravaiger1821

multivagant1895

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. iii. 35 Euripides cals the Bacchic Priests..Erratics, or wanderers.

1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry III. 340 The canonized erratic vouchsafed to inform Eadmer that he disapproved of returning to his old station.

b. One who is eccentric in modes of action, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > deviation from normal standards of behaviour > one who

erratic1623

exorbitant1627

inconformable1633

non-conformant1654

original1675

nonconformista1677

eccentric1832

originalist1835

Bohemian1843

oddball1943

antisocial1945

left fielder1953

boho1958

alternative1982

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Erraticke, a Rogue.

1835 Fraser's Mag. 12 274 It is..only by following the erratics through their concentric courses that we can trace out the manifold ways and vices of man.

†2. An erratic star, a planet. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > of older astronomy

planetc1300

erratic starc1374

erring starc1449

seven starsc1530

straying star1585

wanderer1615

erratical1647

erratic1715

1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. ii. ii. 35 Our Sun doth [warm] the Erraticks encompassing it.

a. Geology. An erratic block.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > mass > [noun] > of rock > stray mass

erratic blocka1828

erratic1849

floating reef1869

1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria xx. 505 The huge erratics of the later cold period.

1882 W. B. Dawkins in Nature 31 Aug. 436/2 Icebergs, melting as they passed southwards, deposited..erratics.

b. In combinations.

ΚΠ

1881 G. M. Dawson in Nature 27 Jan. 291/1 The drift-covered and erratic-strewn character of the country.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	erratic
释义	erraticadj.n. /ɛˈratɪk/ Forms: Middle English erratike, erratyk, 1500s erratik, erratycke, 1600s erratique, 1600s–1700s erratick(e, 1500s– erratic. Etymology: < Latin errāticus, < errāre to wander, err n. Compare French erratique. A. adj. Wandering; prone to wander. 1. First used in certain special applications: †a. erratic star n. Obsolete a planet. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > of older astronomy planetc1300 erratic starc1374 erring starc1449 seven starsc1530 straying star1585 wanderer1615 erratical1647 erratic1715 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1824 He saw with full avisement The erratike sterres, herkening armonie. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) v. i. 70 The seuene name couthe planetes, that ben cleped of clerkes sterres erratiks. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 37 Cosmaghraphie..sal declair the mouyng..of the sternis fixt and sternis erratic. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 74 The Erratick [stars] are seaven. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 32 If..these..stones related to the seven erratic bodies in our spheres [i.e. the planets]. b. Said of pains, or diseases which are not fixed, but move from one part to another, as gout, rheumatism, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > spreading or invasive runninga1382 walkinga1398 erratic1547 accessive1575 errant1621 vagrant1656 metastatic1822 ambulant1828 aggressive1851 proliferous1874 proliferative1888 metastasizing1906 invasive1926 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxiiii^v The Erratycke and commyxt feuer. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 178 Materiall cause of all erratick pains. 1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 154 Costiveness, succeeded with a slow Erratic Fever. 1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 12 This Ailment, because it is erratick, all of a sudden removes to the other foot. †c. erratic poppy n. transl. Latin papaver erraticum (Pliny), identified by English writers with the Wild or Corn Poppy ( Papaver rhœas). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > poppy poppyeOE wild poppya1300 red poppya1400 mecop1480 corn-rose1527 field poppy1597 redweed1609 darnel1612 cockrose?1632 canker1640 tell-love1640 rose poppy1648 erratic poppy1661 corn poppy1671 headwark1691 cop-rose1776 headachea1825 thunderbolt1847 thunder-flower1853 Iceland poppy1870 Greenland poppy1882 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 193 Endive, roses, and erratick poppies. 1672 T. Jordan London Triumphant in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 494 A wreath about her head, consisting of variety of grain..intermingled with..erratick Poppies. †2. a. Wandering from place to place; vagrant; nomadic. Obsolete; shading off into 4. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering wanderingc1000 erringa1340 waggeringa1382 vagant1382 vagabond1426 erroneousa1464 fugitive1481 wavering1487 vagrantc1522 gadding1545 roaming1566 roving1576 straggling1589 rambling?1609 wagand1614 wheelinga1616 gadling1616 vagring1619 erratical1620 vaguing1627 erratic1656 planetical1656 waif1724 vagrarious1795 stravaiging1825 vagarious1882 pirooting1958 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Erratique, that wanders or creeps this way and that way. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 74 Thro' the vast waves the dreadful wonders move, Hence named Erratic by the Gods above. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 141. ⁋10 When fortune did not favour my erratick industry, I gleaned jests at home. a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 707 This erratick justice [when the courts travelled with the kings] must have been productive of infinite inconvenience to the litigants. 1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi ii. 175 Those savages although erratic must remain long enough in one position to cultivate this grain. 1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry II. 220 At this period Delos was supposed to have floated in an erratic state on the surface of the waters. 1830 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord (new ed.) I. 233 No entreaty could induce him to alter his erratic way of life. b. Biology. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > movement > [adjective] locomobile1833 mobile1849 erratic1855 motile1857 1855 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 2) xiii. 321 The first period of their existence, during which they lead an erratic life, then closes. 1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 99 They are rather migratory in their habits, but not erratic, for they seem to go over the same course week after week. 3. erratic block n. (also erratic boulder) Geology a stray mass of rock, foreign to the surrounding strata, that has been transported from its original site, apparently by glacial action. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > mass > [noun] > of rock > stray mass erratic blocka1828 erratic1849 floating reef1869 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > a rock > boulder stonerockeOE rochec1300 rocka1413 calionc1459 outlier1610 boother1680 tumbler1789 boulder1815 lost stone1819 erratic blocka1828 erratic blocka1828 lost rock1831 gibber1834 tumbling stone1857 foundling-stone1892 a1828 W. Phillips Treat. Geol. (Humble) The magnitude of the transported rocks is such as to deserve the name of erratic blocks. 1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria i. 15 To the unskilled eye, Russia presents only a monotonous and undulating surface, chiefly occupied by acumulations of mud, sand, and erratic blocks. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xi. 366 Erratic boulders, and scored rocks scored by drifted icebergs and coast-ice, plainly reveal a former cold period. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) I. viii. 270 We crossed Creag Dhubh, and examined the erratic blocks upon its sides. 4. Irregular or uncertain in movement; having no fixed course. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adjective] > moving without fixed course vaganta1382 scatteringc1450 stragglinga1560 wandering1590 undirecteda1599 wayless1605 planetary1607 rambling?1609 exorbitant1613 exorbitating1632 random1655 unconducteda1677 devious1735 truant1791 wild1810 erratic1841 directionless1860 scrolloping1923 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xlvii. 97 My erratic wanderings. 1854 H. Moseley Lect. Astron. (ed. 4) lxxviii. 218 The attraction of Jupiter..upon this erratic comet. 1879 G. W. Cable Old Creole Days 200 Short remnants of the wind now and then came down the narrow street in erratic puffs. 5. Irregular or eccentric in conduct, habit, or opinion. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour irregular1395 unformalc1449 informalc1475 disordered1561 monstrous1568 odd1577 irregulate1579 exorbitant1613 free-spirited1613 exorbitating1632 inconformable1633 extravagant1650 inconform1659 eccentric1685 unconformable1702 outrageous1778 unconventional1840 erratic1841 kinky1844 Bohemian1846 radical1869 Bohemic1874 nonconforming1899 hard case1904 jazz1917 offbeat1922 deviant1935 deviate1945 oddball1945 left field1951 way out1955 boho1958 non-conformant1960 sideways1969 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical startfulmood?a1300 wildc1350 volage?a1366 gerfulc1374 geryc1386 wild-headeda1400 skittishc1412 gerish1430 shittle1440 shittle-witted1448 runningc1449 volageous1487 glaikit1488 fantasious1490 giggish1523 tickle or light of the sear?1530 fantastical1531 wayward1531 wantona1538 peevish1539 light-headed1549 humoral1573 unstaid1579 shittle-headed1580 toy-headed1581 fangled1587 humorous1589 choiceful1591 toyish1598 tricksy1598 skip-brain1603 capricious1605 humoursome1607 planetary1607 vertiginous1609 whimsieda1625 ingiddied1628 whimsy1637 toysome1638 cocklec1640 mercurial1647 garish1650 maggoty1650 kicksey-winseya1652 freakish1653 humourish1653 planetic1653 whimsical1653 shittle-braineda1655 freaking1663 maggoty-headed1667 maggot-pated1681 hoity-toity1690 maggotish1693 maggot-headeda1695 whimsy-headed1699 fantasque1701 crotchetly1702 quixotic1718 volatile1719 holloweda1734 conundrumical1743 flighty1768 fly-away1775 dizzy1780 whimmy1785 shy1787 whimming1787 quirky1789 notional1791 tricksome1815 vagarish1819 freakful1820 faddy1824 moodish1827 mawky1837 erratic1841 rockety1843 quirkish1848 maggoty-pated1850 crotchetya1854 freaksome1854 faddish1855 vagrom1882 fantasied1883 vagarisome1883 on-and-offish1888 tricksical1889 freaky1891 hobby-horsical1893 quirksome1896 temperamental1907 up and down1960 untogether1969 fanciful- fantastic- 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 199 The genius of Dee was as erratic as the course of life he shortly fell into. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 23 To gather up those erratic spirits that now stand aloof from any religious school. 1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. 17 He did not appear at luncheon, but..he is always erratic. B. n. 1. An erratic person: †a. A vagabond; a wanderer. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > wanderer striker1393 roamerc1400 wandererc1440 whirlerc1440 gangrela1450 fluttererc1450 straggler1530 gadlinga1542 ranger1560 rover1568 fugitive1570 rangler1575 fleeter1581 extravagant1583 scatterling1590 vagranta1592 rambler1624 erratic1669 stravaiger1821 multivagant1895 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. iii. 35 Euripides cals the Bacchic Priests..Erratics, or wanderers. 1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry III. 340 The canonized erratic vouchsafed to inform Eadmer that he disapproved of returning to his old station. b. One who is eccentric in modes of action, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > deviation from normal standards of behaviour > one who erratic1623 exorbitant1627 inconformable1633 non-conformant1654 original1675 nonconformista1677 eccentric1832 originalist1835 Bohemian1843 oddball1943 antisocial1945 left fielder1953 boho1958 alternative1982 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Erraticke, a Rogue. 1835 Fraser's Mag. 12 274 It is..only by following the erratics through their concentric courses that we can trace out the manifold ways and vices of man. †2. An erratic star, a planet. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > of older astronomy planetc1300 erratic starc1374 erring starc1449 seven starsc1530 straying star1585 wanderer1615 erratical1647 erratic1715 1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. ii. ii. 35 Our Sun doth [warm] the Erraticks encompassing it. 3. a. Geology. An erratic block. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > mass > [noun] > of rock > stray mass erratic blocka1828 erratic1849 floating reef1869 1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria xx. 505 The huge erratics of the later cold period. 1882 W. B. Dawkins in Nature 31 Aug. 436/2 Icebergs, melting as they passed southwards, deposited..erratics. b. In combinations. ΚΠ 1881 G. M. Dawson in Nature 27 Jan. 291/1 The drift-covered and erratic-strewn character of the country. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.c1374
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