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Af*fec"tion*ate*ly, adv. With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.

Af*fec"tion*ate*ness, n. The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.

Af*fec"tioned (&?;), a. 1. Disposed. [Archaic]

Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10.

2. Affected; conceited. [Obs.] Shak.

Af*fec"tive (&?;), a. [Cf. F. affectif.] 1. Tending to affect; affecting. [Obs.] Burnet.

2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.

Af*fec"tive*ly, adv. In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.

Af*fec"tu*ous (?; 135), a. [L. affectuous: cf. F. affectueux. See Affect.] Full of passion or emotion; earnest. [Obs.] -- Af*fec"tu*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.] Fabyan.

Af*feer" (&?;), v. t. [OF. aforer, afeurer, to tax, appraise, assess, fr. L. ad + forum market, court of justice, in LL. also meaning price.] 1. To confirm; to assure. [Obs.] "The title is affeered." Shak.

2. (Old Law) To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum.

Amercements . . . were affeered by the judges. Blackstone.

{ Af*feer"er (&?;), Af*feer"or (&?;), } n. [OF. aforeur, LL. afforator.] (Old Law) One who affeers. Cowell.

Af*feer"ment (&?;), n. [Cf. OF. aforement.] (Old Law) The act of affeering. Blackstone.

Af"fer*ent (&?;), a. [L. afferens, p. pr. of afferre; ad + ferre to bear.] (Physiol.) Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.

||Af*fet`tu*o"so (&?;), adv. [It.] (Mus.) With feeling.

Af*fi"ance (&?;), n. [OE. afiaunce trust, confidence, OF. afiance, fr. afier to trust, fr. LL. affidare to trust; ad + fidare to trust, fr. L. fides faith. See Faith, and cf. Affidavit, Affy, Confidence.] 1. Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

2. Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.

Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love. Sir J. Stephen.

Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

Af*fi"ance, v. t. [imp. &?; p. p. Affianced (&?;); p. pr. &?; vb. n. Affiancing (&?;).] [Cf. OF. afiancier, fr. afiance.] 1. To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.

To me, sad maid, he was affianced. Spenser.

2. To assure by promise. [Obs.] Pope.

Af*fi"an*cer (&?;), n. One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.

Af*fi"ant (&?;), n. [From p. pr. of OF. afier, LL. affidare. See Affidavit.] (Law) One who makes an affidavit. [U. S.] Burrill.

Syn. -- Deponent. See Deponent.

Af`fi*da"vit (&?;), n. [LL. affidavit he has made oath, perfect tense of affidare. See Affiance, Affy.] (Law) A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate. Bouvier. Burrill.

It is always made ex parte, and without cross-examination, and in this differs from a deposition. It is also applied to written statements made on affirmation.