affect

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1. 1.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.
2. 2.To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.] As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. Fuller.
3. 3.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 Shak. Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. Hazlitt.
4. 4.To dispose or incline. Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. Milton.
5. 5.To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.] This proud man affects imperial Dryden.
6. 6.To tend to by affinity or disposition. The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. Newton.
7. 7.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.
8. 8.To assign; to appoint. [R.] One of the domestics was affected to his special service. Thackeray.
9. 9.Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is 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 called?
• What is to love; to regard with affection. [Obs.] As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. Fuller called?
• What is to dispose or incline. Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. Milton called?
• What is to aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.] This proud man affects imperial Dryden called?
• What is to tend to by affinity or disposition. The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. Newton called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is to assign; to appoint. [R.] One of the domestics was affected to his special service. Thackeray called?
• What is affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [Obs.] Shak called?