Hypertext Webster Gateway: "affect"

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)

Affect \Af*fect"\, n. [L. affectus.]
Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [Obs.]
--Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Affect \Af*fect"\, n. (Psychotherapy)
The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental
state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely
dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the
original idea.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

affect
n : the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
v 1: have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?" [syn: {impact},
{bear upon}, {bear on}, {touch on}, {touch}]
2: act physically on; have an effect upon
3: connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling
affects your business" [syn: {involve}, {regard}]
4: make believe; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a
headache" [syn: {feign}, {sham}, {pretend}, {dissemble}]
5: have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child
impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck
me as odd" [syn: {impress}, {move}, {strike}]


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