tralineate

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/tɹəˈlɪn.i.eɪt/

verb

To deviate; to stray; to wander.

OriginLatin trāns →
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Meanings

verbtralineate (third-person singular simple present tralineates, present participle tralineating, simple past and past participle tralineated)

present singular third person tralineates · participle present tralineating · participle past tralineated · past tralineated

  1. obsoleteTo deviate; to stray; to wander.

    If you tralineate from your father's mind, What are you else but of a bastard kind?

    1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bath's Tale”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latintrāns“across”
  2. Englishtralineate

From Latin trāns (“across”) + līnea (“a line”). Compare Italian tralineare, tralignare.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

artelinate
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