tralineate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin trāns (“across”) + līnea (“a line”). Compare Italian tralineare, tralignare.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
tralineate (third-person singular simple present tralineates, present participle tralineating, simple past and past participle tralineated)
- (obsolete) To deviate; to stray; to wander.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Wife of Bath's Tale”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- If you tralineate from your father's mind,
What are you else but of a bastard kind?
References edit
- “tralineate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.