Part 217

<blockquote>A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would <b>affect</b> them upon solid and pure principles.

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To love; to regard with affection.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than <b>affected</b>, rather honored than loved, her. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.</def>

<blockquote>For he does neither <b>affect</b> company, nor is he fit for <?/t, indeed. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Do not <b>affect</b> the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.

<i>Hazlitt.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To dispose or incline.</def>

<blockquote>Men whom they thought best <b>affected</b> to religion and their country's liberty. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To aim at; to aspire; to covet.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>This proud man <b>affects</b> imperial <?/way. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To tend to by affinity or disposition.</def>

<blockquote>The drops of every fluid <b>affect</b> a round figure. <i>Newton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; <as>as, to <ex>affect</ex> ignorance</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Careless she is with artful care, <b>Affecting</b> to seem unaffected. <i>Congreve.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Thou dost <b>affect</b> my manners. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>To assign; to appoint.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>One of the domestics was <b>affected</b> to his special service. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt; soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume.</syn>

<h1>Affect</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fect"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>affectus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Affectation</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af`fec*ta"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>affectatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>affectation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.</def> "An <i>affectation</i> of contempt."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<blockquote><b>Affectation</b> is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A striving after.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Pearson.</i>