Affair (n.) A material object (vaguely designated).
Affamish (v. t. & i.) To afflict with, or perish from, hunger.
Affamishment (n.) Starvation.
Affatuate (v. t.) To infatuate.
Affear (v. t.) To frighten.
Affected (imp. & p. p.) of Affect
Affecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affect
Affect (v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
Affect (v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
Affect (v. t.) To love; to regard with affection.
Affect (v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
Affect (v. t.) To dispose or incline.
Affect (v. t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
Affect (v. t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
Affect (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
Affect (v. t.) To assign; to appoint.
Affect (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
Affectation (n.) An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
Affectation (n.) A striving after.
Affectation (n.) Fondness; affection.
Affectationist (n.) One who exhibits affectation.
Affected (p. p. & a.) Regarded with affection; beloved.
Affected (p. p. & a.) Inclined; disposed; attached.
Affected (p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.
Affected (p. p. & a.) Assumed artificially; not natural.
Affected (p. p. & a.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.
Affectedly (adv.) In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.
Affectedly (adv.) Lovingly; with tender care.
Affectedness (n.) Affectation.
Affecter (n.) One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after.
Affectibility (n.) The quality or state of being affectible.
Affectible (a.) That may be affected.
Affecting (a.) Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight.
Affecting (a.) Affected; given to false show.
Affectingly (adv.) In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions.
Affection (n.) The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
Affection (n.) An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies.
Affection (n.) Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency.
Affection (n.) A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children.
Affection (n.) Prejudice; bias.
Affection (n.) Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection.
Affection (n.) The lively representation of any emotion.
Affection (n.) Affectation.
Affection (n.) Passion; violent emotion.
Affectional (a.) Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
Affectionate (a.) Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.
Affectionate (a.) Kindly inclined; zealous.
Affectionate (a.) Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language.
Affectionate (a.) Strongly inclined; -- with to.
Affectionated (a.) Disposed; inclined.
Affectionately (adv.) With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
Affectionateness (n.) The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
Affectioned (a.) Disposed.
Affectioned (a.) Affected; conceited.
Affective (a.) Tending to affect; affecting.
Affective (a.) Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional.
Affectively (adv.) In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
Affectuous (a.) Full of passion or emotion; earnest.
Affeer (v. t.) To confirm; to assure.
Affeer (v. t.) To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum.
Affeerer (n.) Alt. of Affeeror
Affeeror (n.) One who affeers.
Affeerment (n.) The act of affeering.
Afferent (a.) 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.
Affettuoso (adv.) With feeling.
Affiance (n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
Affiance (n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence.
Affianced (imp. / p. p.) of Affiance
Affiancing (p. pr. / vb. n.) of Affiance
Affiance (v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.
Affiance (v. t.) To assure by promise.
Affiancer (n.) One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.
Affiant (n.) One who makes an affidavit.
Affidavit (n.) A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate.
Affile (v. t.) To polish.
Affiliable (a.) Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.
Affiliated (imp. & p. p.) of Affiliate
Affiliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affiliate
Affiliate (v. t.) To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
Affiliate (v. t.) To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
Affiliate (v. t.) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
Affiliate (v. t.) To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with.
Affiliate (v. i.) To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.
Affiliation (n.) Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
Affiliation (n.) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.
Affiliation (n.) Connection in the way of descent.
Affinal (a.) Related by marriage; from the same source.
Affine (v. t.) To refine.
Affined (a.) Joined in affinity or by any tie.
Affinitative (a.) Of the nature of affinity.
Affinitive (a.) Closely connected, as by affinity.
Affinities (pl. ) of Affinity
Affinity (n.) Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between.
Affinity (n.) Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages.
Affinity (n.) Companionship; acquaintance.
Affinity (n.) That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or elective affinity or attraction.
Affinity (n.) A relation between species or highe/ groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure, and indicating community of origin.
Affinity (n.) A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.
Affirmed (imp. & p. p.) of Affirm
Affirming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Affirm