Word Meanings - ABERRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.

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• ABERRATE
  To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• ABERRATION
  A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit,
• ASTRAY
  Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray. Ye were as sheep going astray. 1 Pet. ii. 25.
• DEFECTIVE
  Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
• VISION
  The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve. 3. That
• VISIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being visionary.
• VISIONLESS
  Destitute of vision; sightless.
• DIVERGE
  Etym: 1. To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate ; -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.
• DIVERGEMENT
  Divergence.
• VISIONIST
  A visionary.
• ABERRATIONAL
  Characterized by aberration.
• DIVERGENT
  Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens. 3. Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement. Divergent series. See Diverging series, under Diverging. (more info) 1. Receding farther and farther from each
• VISIONED
  Having the power of seeing visions; inspired; also, seen in visions. Shelley.
• VISIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a vision.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• DIVERGENCE; DIVERGENCY
  1. A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines. Rays come to the eye in a state of divergency. 2. Disagreement; difference. Related with some
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• PROVISIONARY
  Provisional. Burke.
• PROVISIONAL
  Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
• INVISION
  Want of vision or of the power of seeing. Sir T. Browne.
• IMPROVISION
  Improvidence. Sir T. Browne.
• REVISION
  1. The act of revising; reëxamination for correction; review; as, the revision of a book or writing, or of a proof sheet; a revision of statutes. 2. That which is made by revising. Syn. -- Reëxamination; revisal; revise; review.
• REVISIONAL; REVISIONARY
  Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.
• PROVISION
  A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation. (more info) 1. The act of providing, or making previous preparation. Shak. 2. That which is provided or prepared; that which is brought
• PREVISION
  Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience. H. Spencer.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.