AFFECT

AFFECT', verb transitive [Latin afficio, affectum, of ad and facio, to make; affecto, to desire, from the same room. affect is to make to, or upon to press upon.]1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon; as, cold affects the body; loss affects our interests.2. To act upon, or move the passions; as, affected with grief.3. To aim at; aspire to; desire or entertain pretension to; as, to affect imperial sway. [See the etymology of Affair.]4. To tend to by natural affinity or disposition; as, the drops of a fluid affect a spherical form.5. To love, or regard with fondness.Think not that wars we love and strife affect [This sense is closely allied to the third.]6. To make a show of; to attempt to imitate, in a manner not natural; to study the appearance of what is not natural, or real; as, to affect to be grave; affected friendship.It seems to have been used formerly for convict or attaint, as in Ayliffe's Parergon; but this sense is not now in use.

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affect. (fr) affect, to desire earnestly, or to mind

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affect. Affect, n. affection, passion, ob.

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Af‐fect″ (ăf‐fĕkt″), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Affected; p. pr. & vb. n. Affecting.] [[L. affectus, p. p. of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make: cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See Fact.]] 1. 1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay. 2. 2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles. Burke. 3. 3. To love; to regard with affection.
As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. Fuller. 4. 4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed. Shak. Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. Hazlitt. 5. 5. To dispose or incline.
Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. Milton. 6. 6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
This proud man affects imperial �way. Dryden. 7. 7. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. Newton. 8. 8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. Congreve. Thou dost affect my manners. Shak. 9. 9. To assign; to appoint.
One of the domestics was affected to his special service. Thackeray. Syn. — To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt; soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume.