Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits.
In that there are just seven Planets or errant Stars in the lower Orbs of heaven: but it is now demonstrable unto sense, that there are many more
Roving around; wandering.
Prone to erring or making errors; misbehaving.
We ran down the street in pursuit of the errant dog.
A knight-errant.
From Middle English erraunt [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman erraunt, from Old French errant, the present participle of errer (“to walk (to); to wander (to); (figuratively) to travel, voyage”), an...
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