ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ING2.] Going astray, subject to aberration.

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1806.  Moore, Extract, etc., in Epistles, etc., 339–40.

        He thought the aberrating rays,
Which play about a bumper’s blaze,
Were by the Doctors look’d, in common, on,
As a more rare and rich phenomenon!

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1828.  Life in Paris, 132. Lady HALIBUT had been reconciled to her aberrating spouse.

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1839.  De Quincey, in Tait’s Mag., VI. Aug., 515/2. The product of their own defective and aberrating vision.

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