AFFECTED

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5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. Chapman.

2.
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Inclined; disposed; attached. How stand you affected his wish Shak.

3.
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Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak.

4.
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Assumed artificially; not natural. Affected coldness and indifference. Addison.

5.
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Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.