tralineate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹəˈlɪn.i.eɪt/

Verb

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

1. (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

• “tralineate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• artelinate