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exorbitate

exorbitate verb: to go off track or orbit; to deviate.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To go off track or orbit; to deviate.
    • 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 Saturn1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693
    • the earth, […]in imminent danger of exorbitating, or of falling into the sun1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Forms of exorbitate

third-person singular presentexorbitates
present participleexorbitating
past participleexorbitated
pastexorbitated

Origin of exorbitate

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

Questions about exorbitate

What does exorbitate mean?
Exorbitate means to go off track or orbit; to deviate.
What part of speech is exorbitate?
Exorbitate is a verb.
What is the past tense of exorbitate?
The past tense of exorbitate is exorbitated.

Words near exorbitate in the dictionary

  1. exorbitancies
  2. exorbitancy
  3. exorbitant
  4. exorbitant privilege
  5. exorbitantly
  6. exorbitate
  7. exorbitated
  8. exorbitates
  9. exorbitating
  10. exorbitation
  11. exorbitations

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