All 6 Uses of
deviate
in
Moby Dick
- I say, that though the Captain is very discreet and scientific here, yet, for all his learned "binnacle deviations,"†
Chpt 34-36 *
- Besides, when making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct—say, rather, secret intelligence from the Deity—mostly swim in VEINS, as they are called; continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with one tithe of such marvellous precision.†
Chpt 43-45undeviating = not changing or differingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undeviating means not and reverses the meaning of deviating. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The Sperm Whale blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating and reliable uniformity.†
Chpt 46-48
- Besides, if you regard him very closely, and time him with your watch, you will find that when unmolested, there is an undeviating rhyme between the periods of his jets and the ordinary periods of respiration.†
Chpt 85-87
- Long maintaining an enchanted silence, Ahab stood apart; and every time the tetering ship loweringly pitched down her bowsprit, he turned to eye the bright sun's rays produced ahead; and when she profoundly settled by the stern, he turned behind, and saw the sun's rearward place, and how the same yellow rays were blending with his undeviating wake.†
Chpt 124-126
- either standing in his pivot-hole, or exactly pacing the planks between two undeviating limits,—the main-mast and the mizen;†
Chpt 130-132
Definition:
differ or change