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Webster 1913 Edition


Aberr

Ab-err′

,
Verb.
I.
[L.
aberrare
. See
Aberrate
.]
To wander; to stray.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Aberrancy of curvature
(Geom.)
,
the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

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aberr

aberr

English

Verb

aberr (third-person singular simple present aberrs, present participle aberring, simple past and past participle aberred)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go astray; to err. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.][1]
  2. (transitive, rare) Distort; aberrate. [First attested in the late 19th century.][1]

References

  1. 1 2 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 3

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