Part 219

<blockquote>Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become <b>affectible</b>. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Affecting</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fect"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; <as>as, an <ex>affecting</ex> address; an <ex>affecting</ex> sight.</as></def>

<blockquote>The most <b>affecting</b> music is generally the most simple.

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Affected; given to false show.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A drawling; <b>affecting</b> rouge. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Affectingly</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fect"ing*ly</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions.</def>

<h1>Affection</h1> <Xpage=28>

<hw>Af*fec"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>affection</ets>, L. <ets>affectio</ets>, fr. <ets>afficere</ets>. See <er>Affect</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; <as>as, figure, weight, etc.</as> , are <i>affections</i> of bodies.</def> "The <i>affections</i> of quantity."

<i>Boyle.</i>

<blockquote>And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange <b>affection</b> of the house. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; <as>as, the benevolent <ex>affections</ex>, esteem, gratitude, etc.</as> ; the malevolent <i>affections</i>, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency.</def>

<blockquote><b>Affection</b> is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. <i>Cogan.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the <pluf>pl.</pluf> Formerly followed by <i>to</i>, but now more generally by <i>for</i> or <i>towards</i>; <as>as, filial, social, or conjugal <ex>affections</ex>; to have an <ex>affection</ex> for or towards children.</as></def>

<blockquote>All his <b>affections</b> are set on his own country. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> Prejudice; bias.<pluf> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Aylmer.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Disease; morbid symptom; malady; <as>as, a pulmonary <ex>affection</ex></as>.</def>

<i>Dunglison.</i>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>The lively representation of any emotion.</def>

<i>Wotton.</i>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Affectation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Spruce <i>affection."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>Passion; violent emotion.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Most wretched man, That to <b>affections</b> does the bridle lend. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Attachment; passion; tenderness; fondness; kindness; love; good will. See <er>Attachment</er>; <er>Disease</er>.</syn>