Wordnet 3.0
VERB (2)
1.
diverge from the expected;
- Example: "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman"2.
diverge or deviate from the straight path;
produce aberration;
- Example: "The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Aberrate \Ab"er*rate\, v. i. [L. aberratus, p. pr. of aberrare;
ab + errare to wander. See Err.]
To go astray; to diverge. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
Their own defective and aberrating vision. --De
Quincey.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
aberrate
v 1: diverge from the expected; "The President aberrated from
being a perfect gentleman"
2: diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce
aberration; "The surfaces of the concave lens may be
proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex
lens"