v. rare. [f. L. aberrāt- ppl. stem of aberrā-re: see ABERR.] To diverge or deviate from the straight path; to produce aberration, as in optics.
1765. Dollond, Telescopes, in Phil. Trans., LV. 55. The surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis.
1846. Elizabeth Allen, Sk. Green Mountain Life, 93. If she permitted her to aberrate from the rules of virtue and propriety.
