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- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. The earth and each erratic world. Blackmore.

Erratic. -- Er*rat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Er*rat"ic*al*ness, n.

Not erratic or wandering; fixed; settled; established.

Erratic. "Errabund guesses." Southey.

titude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular. Mazes intricate, Eccentric,…

A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal.

Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. "Erratical and planetary life." Fuller. Planetary days, the days of the week as shared among the planets known to the ancients, each having its day. Hutton. -- Planetary nebula, a nebula exhibiting a uniform disk, like that of a planet.

Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled. That beauteous Emma vagrant courses took. Prior. While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in live. Macaulay.