ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ING2.] Going astray, subject to aberration.
1806. Moore, Extract, etc., in Epistles, etc., 33940.
He thought the aberrating rays, | |
Which play about a bumpers blaze, | |
Were by the Doctors lookd, in common, on, | |
As a more rare and rich phenomenon! |
1828. Life in Paris, 132. Lady HALIBUT had been reconciled to her aberrating spouse.
1839. De Quincey, in Taits Mag., VI. Aug., 515/2. The product of their own defective and aberrating vision.