单词 | aberration |
释义 | aberrationn. 1. a. A deviation or departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one. Also as a mass noun: deviation, abnormality, departure from the norm. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [noun] > deviation from natural or moral order misordinancea1400 misordaining?a1450 aberration1588 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [noun] > deviation from rule or standard aberration1588 abhorrency1592 deviation1603 digression1615 wryness1633 anomalism1668 anomalousness1698 aberrance1865 1588 R. Some Def. Last Treat. xvii, in Godly Treat. Ministerie, Sacram. & Church (new ed.) 150 Popery is an aberration of the Christian Church. 1602 W. Temple Antiquodlibet i. 39 The said action be originally an aberration from the law. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 127 Though thy heart have some variations, some deviations, some aberrations from that direct point, upon which it should be bent. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 262 Where the real works of Nature, or veritable acts of story are to be described, digressions are aberrations . View more context for this quotation 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 86. ⁋13 More than one aberration from the rule in any single verse. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. i. 10 Promoted according to the rule of seniority, unless where directions from home prescribed aberration. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner xi. 183 The very pins on her pincushion were stuck in after a pattern from which she was careful to allow no aberration. 1881 B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort New Test. in Orig. Greek II. Introd. iii. 249 Subsingular readings of א would be nothing more than examples of early aberration early extinguished. 1904 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 230 Pet lions were only one example of the aberrations of pet-lovers in ancient Rome. 1956 R. Jakobson & M. Halle Fund. of Lang. ii. iv. 74 All other sound-sequences are either alien and inscrutable to him or he merges them into familiar words by disregarding their phonetic aberrations. 2002 Cathedral Music Oct. 67/3 The singing of the choir throughout is admirable; wonderfully disciplined and balanced with no irritating aberrations or mannerisms. b. A departure from an ethical or behavioural standard; (also) moral irregularity. ΚΠ 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. To Rdr. sig. bv Error in religion and aberration in manners. 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xci The distractions of my thoughts, and the aberrations of my life. 1714 J. Robinson Benefits & Duty Members Christ's Kingdom 8 By the Terrors of most severe Penalties, He restrains our Aberrations. 1792 R. Bage Man as he Is III. lxxxi. 257 She saw so many foulnesses there, and so many aberrations, that Lady Mary's language was almost wholly moral and vituperative. 1823 T. Roscoe tr. J. C. L. de Sismondi Hist. Lit. Europe III. xxi. 6 Her speeches are full of..affection and deep pity for her mother's aberration. 1840 H. Rogers Ess. II. v. 221 The infallible standard by which each man measures the aberrations of his neighbour. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 5 Habitually measuring character by its aberrations. 1908 Yale Courant 44 773 He has an elastic conscience which now allows him to trick Silverdale and now forbids the slightest aberration. 2007 R. T. Stella Imagining Other vii. 144 Native women were seen to epitomize sexual deviancy, aberration, and excess. c. An abnormal state of mind; temporary impairment of reason or intellectual function. Now chiefly in mental aberration. ΚΠ 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 523 In the diseases which we call Dilirium, that is, an aberration of the minde and in the Letargy which are affects of the Braine there is no paine at all. 1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. xiii. 148 Nor does Hypocondrick fits, or the first degrees of madness, defend against this Confiscation, but a total aberration from reason, cannot but defend. 1730 A. Bayne Inst. Criminal Law Scotl. 103 Although Self-murder must needs be owing to some Degree of Madness, since Nature, not disordered, carefully seeks the Preservation of Life; yet ought we to distinguish such Disorder from a total Aberration of Mind. 1790 J. Earl in P. Pott Chirurg. Observ. (new ed.) I. p. xxxvi My mind has great propensity to aberration; and I find myself much inclined to talk nonsense, unless I studiously collect my thoughts. 1823 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. VI. 312 Her affliction seemed to produce occasional aberrations of intellect. 1829 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. x. 354 Shades of mental aberration have afterwards occurred. 1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein II. 554 The slightest aberration in his [sc. Napoleon's] mind, might be represented by the complete transformation of Europe. 1921 tr. C. Sabourin Rational Treatm. Pulmonary Tuberculosis iii. iv. 426 A few words concerning phthisiomaniacs—persons suffering from an aberration derived from phthisiophobia. 1957 J. Bishop Day Christ Died (1959) 86 Jesus must have been a naïve religious who, through mental aberration, believed that he was God. 2009 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 4 Nov. 7/2 Obviously, she had suffered a mental aberration of some sort. d. Chiefly Biology. Deviation from an expected natural type; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > condition of being abnormal or unnatural > that which is monsterc1384 prodigy1595 aberration1615 unnatural1627 preternatural1674 nonsuch?1706 frisk of nature1809 freak of nature1847 preternaturalism1858 hodmandod1881 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 271 Aristotle thinketh, that the Woman or female is nothing else but an error or aberration of Nature. 1657 J. Bramhall Castigations Mr. Hobbes 242 Aberrations in nature are onely deformities, not sinnes. 1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds VII. 132 Even in her aberrations, nature proceeds by insensible gradations. 1869 Buckle's Hist. Civilisation Eng. (new ed.) II. vii. 403 The apparent aberrations presented by minerals are strictly regular. 1908 R. South Moths Brit. Isles II. 267 In most of such aberrations the tips of the fore wings are rather more rounded than in typical specimens. 1937 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Jan. 94/1 The various departures from normality are due to the aberration of one or more members of this gene-complex. 2003 Nat. New Eng. Summer 50/1 Two-headed snakes. These aberrations..occur with an estimated frequency of one out of every 50,000 to 100,000 births. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > straying or going astray vagationc1340 straya1400 outstray?a1425 will gate1440 out-way going1532 straying1548 out-straying1589 aberrationa1594 estraying1598 taveringa1599 straggling1601 wandering1711 a1594 R. Greenham Wks. (1612) iv. 409 He considereth his wayes, that is his inward imperfections, & outward aberrations from the straite, and streight wayes of God. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 42 These vessels do not directly passe vnto the braine, but after diuers contortions and aberrations from a right & direct progresse. 1629 H. C. Disc. Drayning Fennes sig. B4v The riuer of Peterbrough,..which should fall out at Splading [sic],..if it had vent, passeth now on to Whittlesea Meare, and so runnes through the whole Isle, and meeting the riuers of Ouse, Grant, Brandon and Stoke, ouerflowes all, and falleth out leasurely at Linne aboue threescore miles from his aberration. 1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xiii. §3. 208 It's like the Country in which the Prodigall once lived in his aberration from his Father. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 83 The aberration of the common center of all these currents from the north point. 1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. ii. 31 The slightest aberration would plunge him into a morass, or throw him over a precipice. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 81 The aberration of plants to great distances from their native countries. 3. Optics. The failure of (reflected or refracted) rays of light to converge to a focus; a defect in an optical system leading to such a failure. Also in extended use with reference to other kinds of radiation.chromatic, spherical aberration: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > emission of light, radiation > [noun] > meeting point > non-convergence aberration1672 1672 I. Newton Let. 8 July in Corr. (1959) I. 212 But I see not why the aberration of the rays from the transvers of the object-glass of a Telescope should be more then about 1/ 50 of the Glasses aperture. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. There are two species of the aberrations of rays..one arising from the figure of the glass or speculum, the other from the unequal refrangibility of the rays of light. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxxvi. 431 The aberration of the different parts of any single pencil of rays, from the corresponding point of the image, requires also to be considered in the construction of telescopes. 1872 Buffalo Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 11 249 More exact researches have discovered in the eye, aberrations much greater than that of sphericity. 1920 E. Schneider in F. S. Spiers Microscope 95 In most cases aberrations distort the image, and the microscope proves inferior to what one might hope for. 1953 S. W. Amos & D. C. Birkinshaw Television Engin. I. 258 Further aberrations which are peculiar to electron lenses. 2004 M. Freeman Close-up Photogr. i. 9/1 There is no such thing as a perfect lens, and all are plagued to some degree by one or more aberrations. 4. Astronomy. An apparent displacement of a celestial object from its true position, arising from the combined effect of the observer's motion and the finite speed of light. Also aberration of light.That part of the apparent displacement caused by the earth's axial motion is called diurnal aberration; that caused by the earth's orbital motion is annual aberration (which, for a star, is negligible); that caused by the motion of a planet being observed is called planetary aberration. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > position of heavenly body > [noun] > other declinationc1400 meridian altitudec1400 angle of position?a1560 zenith distance1588 refraction1603 azimuth1626 amplitude1627 horizontal parallax1665 complement1703 aberration1737 hour-angle1837 intercept1901 1729 J. Bradley in Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 646 I perceived that, if Light was propagated in Time, the apparent Place of a fixt Object would not be the same when the Eye is at Rest, as when it is moving in any other Direction, than that of the Line passing through the Eye and Object; and that, when the Eye is moving in different Directions, the apparent Place of the Object would be different.] 1737 J. Bradley tr. P. L. M. Maupertuis Let. 27 Sept. in J. Bradley Misc. Wks. & Corr. (1832) 404 Your theory of the aberration occasioned by the motion of light. 1776 N. Maskelyne Astron. Observ. I. Pref. p. ix Dr. Bradley; who..discovered the apparent motion of the fixed stars, which he called the aberration of light. 1832 Astron. Observ. Observatory Cambr. 5 p. xix For the Planets, (2,69823) × planet's distance is then subtracted, to take account of planetary aberration. 1856 D. Lardner Handbk. Astron. §2448 The apparent displacement produced by aberration is always in the direction of the earth's motion. 1869 E. Dunkin Midnight Sky 157 Dr. Bradley..made the important discovery of the aberration of light. 1909 F. H. Seares Pract. Astron. Engineers i. 15 The corrections to which the coördinates are subject are proper motion, precession, nutation, annual aberration, diurnal aberration, [etc.]. 2003 R. Wolfson Simply Einstein v. 66 Aberration of starlight shows that Earth doesn't drag a blob of ether with it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1588 |
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