aberratory

English

Etymology

From aberrate +‎ -ory.

Adjective

aberratory (comparative more aberratory, superlative most aberratory)

1. (rare) Of or pertaining to aberration; aberrant.
   • p. 1932 (written), Zelda Fitzgerald, “Other Names for Roses”, in The Collected Writings, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, published 1991, →ISBN, page 366:

     There was enough of her family in Fedora for that last to sound improbable—another of those things to be assuaged, a sort of unaccountable temperamentality; not as bad as a drug addict but impolitely aberratory.

   • 1934 September 21, Charles Willis Thompson, “1934 and Political Change”, in The Commonweal, volume 20, number 21, New York, page 479:

     This was so acceptable an improvement on either “King Caucus” or the erratic and aberratory method of legislative or mass-meeting nominations that the parties adopted it for the Presidency as well as the Vice Presidency.