aberratic
English
Adjective
aberratic (comparative more aberratic, superlative most aberratic)
- Characterized by aberration.
- Synonyms: aberrant, aberrational, abnormal
- 1888, John Bernhard Smith, A Monograph of the Sphingidae of America North of Mexico, Philadelphia: American Entomological Society, page 209:
- […] I believe that this species will turn out only an aberratic form of [Ellema] harrisii—hardly a variety—for were it a variety it would occur more frequently.
- 1902, Harry Quilter, What’s What, London: Sonnenschein, page 288:
- the passionate maidens so woefully aberratic in their love affairs, the comic poodles and Scotch terriers, the outspoken families and crusty elders who make up Miss Broughton’s Dramatis Personæ
- 1988, Chinua Achebe, “The Truth of Fiction”, in Hopes and Impediments, New York: Doubleday, published 1989, page 144:
- the law of reciprocity which informs like a gravitational force the seemingly aberratic motions of his bizarre, fictive universe
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