Definition of "deviate"

[…] 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 […]

1915, James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis‎

Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate is a deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court […]

1959, Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing‎

[…] The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially […]

2001, Rupert Brown, Group Processes‎

It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130 […]

1928, Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education‎

This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.

2001, Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics‎

This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...

2005, Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R‎

These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.

1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W. Lewis […], published 1711

2021 February 9, “The double-edged sword of movie stardom remains the same as it ever was: when a persona is so fixed in the public mind, it's what people love you for, and it becomes difficult to deviate from.”, in BBC‎