exorbitate

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English

Etymology

From Latin exorbitatus, passive participle of exorbitare. See exorbitant.

Verb

exorbitate (third-person singular simple present exorbitates, present participle exorbitating, simple past and past participle exorbitated)

  1. (obsolete) To go out of the track; to deviate.
    • 1692, Richard Bentley, (please specify the sermon), London: , published 1692–1693:
      If the Planets had moved in those Lines above named; sometimes they would have approached to the Sun as near as the Orb of Mercury, and sometimes have exorbitated beyond the distance of Saturn

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exorbitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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