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oberrare [CL] 1 to wander around or about (usu. aimlessly): a (of person or animal); b (of natural element or celestial body); c (fig.). a neque beluae vibrantibus / rabidi rostri rictibus / oberrantes per devia / dumosi ruris limina (Æthelwald) Carm. Aldh. 2. 61; [caeci] lucem enim nesciunt, sed in tenebris semper ~ant Felix Guthl. prol. p. 62; quoscunque ob culpam inoboedientiae veris expulsos monasteriis alicubi forte ~antes invenerint Bede Egb. 12; a805 quid erit de grege, si pastor ~at? Alcuin Ep. 282; pro deliramento canonicorum dicentium regios manes resumpto cadavere noctibus per domos ~are W. Malm. GR II 124; tota nocte noctivagus cum sociis ~abat R. Cold. Godr. 94.  b populator oberrat / ignis et in medios gladii venere sopores J. Exon. BT VI 758; stridor sonabit dencium admirandus; / motus obibunt orbium oberrantes J. Howd. Cant. 140.  c turpiter alvus hiat. laterum latus horror oberrat. / plage terga replent. ossa retecta patent L. Durh. Dial. II 359; interpretacio deficit, et in senem turpiter et multipliciter ~atur Bacon Gram. Gk. 60; compatere mundo sub quescionis nostre nebulis ~anti Fortescue NLN II 1. 2 to stray or wander away from (also fig.): a (w. a or ab); b (w. de); c (w. in & acc.). a ut ab eo numquam vos quibuscumque fantasiis ~are permittat Egb. Pont. 71; nec ab eo quod papa predixerat aliquatenus ~avit Alex. Cant. Mir. 30 p. 219; ne canonici regulares ~ant a regula Obs. Barnwell 34; si ‥ calamus preceps ~averit ‥ a semita veritatis Conway Def. Mend. 1410 (recte 1310) .  b a799 revertere in viam, de qua ~asti Alcuin Ep. 131 p. 197.  c si forte in alienas manus ~averit haec peregrina epistola in incertis ventis dimissa Gosc. Lib. Confort. 26. 3 to stray, wander. amens, si tibi mus parvus oberret, eris Babio 28. 4 (trans.) to go about, take care of, or sim.. proque Deo dominos sua crimina servus oberrat, / quot vitiis tot iners subjacet unus heris L. Durh. Dial. IV 221.

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