Part 3614

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Execution; performance; realization; operation; <as>as, the law goes into <ex>effect</ex> in May</as>.</def>

<blockquote>That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The <b>effect</b> and it. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Manifestation; expression; sign.</def>

<blockquote>All the large <b>effects</b> That troop with majesty. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the <i>cause</i>; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; <as>as, the <ex>effect</ex> of luxury</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>effect</b> is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause. <i>Whewell.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.</def>

<blockquote>Patchwork . . . introduced for oratorical <b>effect</b>. <i>J. C. Shairp.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>effect</b> was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place. <i>W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; <as>as, to speak with <ex>effect</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with <i>to</i>.</def>

<blockquote>They spake to her to that <b>effect</b>. <i>2 Chron. xxxiv. 22.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>The purport; the sum and substance.</def> "The <i>effect</i> of his intent."

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.</def>

<blockquote>No other in <b>effect</b> than what it seems. <i>Denham.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; <as>as, the people escaped from the town with their <ex>effects</ex></as>.</def>

<cs><col>For effect</col>, <cd>for an exaggerated impression or excitement.</cd> -- <col>In effect</col>, <cd>in fact; in substance. See 8, above.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Of no effect</col>, <col>Of none effect</col>, <col>To no effect</col>, &or; <col>Without effect</col></mcol>, <cd>destitute of results, validity, force, and the like; vain; fruitless.</cd> "Making the word of God <i>of none effect<i> through your tradition." <i>Mark vii. 13</i>. "All my study be <i>to no effect<i>." <i>Shak</i>. -- <col>To give effect to</col>, <cd>to make valid; to carry out in practice; to push to its results.</cd> -- <col>To take effect</col>, <cd>to become operative, to accomplish aims.</cd>

<i>Shak.</i> </cs>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Effect</er>, <er>Consequence</er>, <er>Result</er>.</syn> <usage>These words indicate things which arise out of some antecedent, or follow as a consequent. <i>Effect</i>, which may be regarded as the generic term, denotes that which springs directly from something which can properly be termed a cause. A <i>consequence</i> is more remote, not being strictly caused, nor yet a mere sequence, but following out of and following indirectly, or in the train of events, something on which it truly depends. A <i>result</i> is still more remote and variable, like the rebound of an elastic body which falls in very different directions. We may foresee the <i>effects</i> of a measure, may conjecture its <i>consequences</i>, but can rarely discover its final <i>results</i>.</usage>

<blockquote>Resolving all events, with their <b>effects</b> And manifold <b>results</b>, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Shun the bitter <b>consequence</b>, for know, The day thou eatest thereof, . . . thou shalt die. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Effect</h1> <Xpage=472>

<hw>Ef*fect"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Effected</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Effecting</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.</def>

<blockquote>So great a body such exploits to <b>effect</b>. <i>Daniel.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.</def>

<blockquote>To <b>effect</b> that which the divine counsels had decreed. <i>Bp. Hurd.</i></blockquote>