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Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.

Affected with indignation; wrathful; passionate; irate; feeling wrath, as when a person is exasperated by unworthy or unjust treatment, by a mean action, or by a degrading accusation. He strides indignant, and with haughty cries To single fight the fairy prince defies. Tickell.

Overcome by some foolish passion or desire; affected by infatuation.

; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body. W. Wotton. Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment. Bacon.

Learned; pedantic; affected. [Obs.] "Inkhorn terms." Bale.

Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers.

Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery. -- In`sus*cep`ti*bly adv.

Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.

r reproachful accusation; -- followed by against, having reference to the person or thing affected; as an invective against tyranny. The world will be able to judge of his [Junius'] motives for writing such famous invectives. Sir W. Draper.

A fantastic grimace or contortion of the body. [Obs.] Smirks and irps and all affected humors. B. Jonson .

A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.

d to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulati…

t of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.

To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected. My mouth hath itched all this long day. Chaucer.

affected with jaundice. Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow. Bp. Hall.

Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.

Chapped; cracked with cold; affected with chilblains; as kibed heels. Beau. & Fl.

Affected with kibes. Skelton.

it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor impulses applied to it directly.

A person affected with kleptomania.