exorbitate

From Latin exorbitatus, passive participle of exorbitare. See exorbitant.

exorbitate (third-person singular simple present exorbitates, present participle exorbitating, simple past and past participle exorbitated)

1. (obsolete) To go off track or orbit; to deviate.
   • 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:

     If the Planets had moved in those Lines above named; sometimes they would have approached to the Sun as near as the Orb of Mercury, and sometimes have exorbitated beyond the distance of Saturn

   • 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions:

     the earth, […] in imminent danger of exorbitating, or of falling into the sun

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