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astray

adv
/əˈstɹeɪ/US

Etymology

From Middle English astraien or by apheresis straien, from Old French estraier (“to stray”), from late Medieval Latin extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagārī (“to wander, stray”).

  1. derived from extra
  2. derived from extravagari
  3. derived from estraier
  4. inherited from astraien

Definitions

  1. Away from the proper path

    Away from the proper path; in a wrong or unknown direction.

    • Go, set the storm-winds free, / And sink their ships or scatter them astray, / And strew their corpses forth, to weltering waves a prey.

  2. Away from what is right and good

    Away from what is right and good; into error or evil.

The neighborhood

Derived

go astray, lead astray

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at astray. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at astray. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at astray

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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