aberrate

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But in this fickle and aberrated mind ideas superpose themselves on each other, then pass away, and those which disappear leave their shadow on those which follow.

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

In this instance the mind of the patient is found to be in a sadly aberrated condition.

From Literary Lapses by Leacock, Stephen

As a psychotic genuinely improves, their aberrated behavior often becomes more aggressive initially and thus, harder to control.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve

Swift had no passionate love for ideals—indeed, he may have thought ideals to be figments of an overheated and, therefore, aberrated imagination.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Swift, Jonathan

The women would be able to bring into effect several laws dealing with spaceflight, among them the one against stowaways, and especially that particular one about aberrated males sneaking into space and committing suicide.

From Thy Name Is Woman by Walton, Bryce