exorbitate

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verb

To go off track or orbit; to deviate.

OriginLatin exorbitatus →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person exorbitates · participle present exorbitating · participle past exorbitated · past exorbitated

  1. obsoleteTo go off track or orbit; to deviate.

    the earth, […]in imminent danger of exorbitating, or of falling into the sun

    1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
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    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

    1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693

Origin

  1. Latinexorbitatus
  2. Englishexorbitate

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

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “exorbitate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exorbitate.

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