exorbitate
verbEtymology From Latin exorbitatus, passive participle of exorbitare. See exorbitant.
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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: