aberratingadj.

?1790 J. Stewart Revol. of Reason 104 Should the subtility of aberrating reason identify cause, it immediately becomes effect, and must have its cause.

1823 R. Wilson 4 May in Niles' Weekly Reg. 24 312/2 We hope that our example will produce its due influence upon her aberrating sons,..unworthy of belonging to Spain, who are carrying on a sacrilegious war against their mother country.

1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 515/2 The product of their own defective and aberrating vision.

1893 B. Harte Sally Dows vi. 104 He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency—but with the single directness of the man of action.

1905 Federal Reporter 134 654 Their way of calling the attention to [sic] approaching and passing vessels to the capsized and aberrating scow was haphazard.

1977 Yoga Jrnl. Mar. 22/1 The major aberrating factor in current television is the unintentional transmission of low-vibrational value systems.

2002 SIAM Rev. 44 174 The wave..passes through an optical system consisting of apertures, aberrating media such as mirrors and crystal structures, and a focusing lens.