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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Affect \Af*fect"\ ([a^]f*f[e^]kt"), 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. 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. 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. To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.] As for Queen Katharine he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her --Fuller. 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. To dispose or incline. Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. --Milton. 6. To aim at to aspire; to covet. [Obs.] This proud man affects imperial ?way. --Dryden. 7. To tend to by affinity or disposition. The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. --Newton. 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. To assign; to appoint. [R.] 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Affecting \Af*fect"ing\, a. 1. Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as an affecting address; an affecting sight. The most affecting music is generally the most simple. --Mitford. 2. Affected; given to false show [Obs.] A drawling; affecting rouge. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: affecting adj : arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching" [syn: {poignant}, {touching}]
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