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  • 11deviate — 1. noun a) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert. ...Walton has suggested that it is desirable to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a deviate as the case may be... b) A value… …

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  • 12deviate — v. & n. v.intr. (often foll. by from) turn aside or diverge (from a course of action, rule, truth, etc.); digress. n. a deviant, esp. a sexual pervert. Derivatives: deviator n. deviatory adj. Etymology: LL deviare deviat (as DE , via way) …

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  • 13deviate — ► VERB ▪ diverge from an established course or from normal standards. ORIGIN Latin deviare turn out of the way , from via way …

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  • 14deviate — I. verb ( ated; ating) Etymology: Late Latin deviatus, past participle of deviare, from Latin de + via way more at way Date: circa 1633 intransitive verb 1. to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic 2. to depart from an established …

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  • 15deviate — verb (deviated, deviating) –verb (i) /ˈdivieɪt / (say deeveeayt) 1. to turn aside (from a way or course). 2. to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable standard. 3. to digress, as from a line of thought or reasoning …

  • 16deviate — verb di:vɪeɪt diverge from an established course or from usual or accepted standards. noun & adjective di:vɪət old fashioned term for deviant. Derivatives deviator noun Origin C16 (as adjective in the sense remote ): from late L. deviat , deviare …

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  • 17depart from — deviate from (an accepted, prescribed, or usual course of action). → depart …

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  • 18MODERN TIMES – FROM THE 1880S TO THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY — introduction effects of anti jewish discrimination in russia pogroms and mass emigration german jewry racism and antisemitism The Economic Crisis of the Early 1930s In Soviet Russia after 1917 new types of social organization contribution to… …

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  • 19Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes — George Molland Early in the nineteenth century John Playfair wrote for the Encyclopaedia Britannica a long article entitled ‘Dissertation; exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Mathematics and Physical Science, since the Revival of Letters …

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  • 20depart from one's course — index detour, deviate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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