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To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.

To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to. It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion. Shak. To congratulate one's self, to rejoice; to feel satisfaction; to consider one's self h…

ppropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial. "Conjugal affection." Milton.

To affect or effect by conjuration; to call forth or send away by magic arts; to excite or alter, as if by magic or by the aid of supernatural powers. The habitation which your prophet . . . conjured the devil into. Shak. To conjure up, or make visible, as a spirit, by magic arts; hence, to invent; as, to conjure up a…

ich are dependent on original conformation being called congenital; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during gestation or delivery are called connate. Dunglison.

Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. These affections are connatural to us. L'Estrange.

or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,…

sciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or "ego" of its acts and affections; -- in other words, the self- affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these modifications are mine. Sir W. Hamilton.

To stamp or impress; to affect. [Obs.] Consign my spirit with great fear. Jer. Taylor.

To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate. He with his consorted Eve. Milton. For all that pleasing is to living ears Was there consorted in one harmony. Spenser. He begins to consort himself with men. Locke.

hine with united radiance, or one general light. [R.] The several things which engage our affections . . . shine forth and constellate in God. Boule.

ative ordinance, regulation or enactment; especially, one made by a Roman emperor, or one affecting ecclesiastical doctrine or disipline; as, the constitutions of Justinian. The positive constutions of our own churches. Hooker. A constitution of Valentinian addressed to Olybrius, then prefect of Rome, for the regulatio…

Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden.

Affected by contagion.

event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.

that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.

To show affection; to act in a loving way. See under Bill, v. i. "Billing or cooing." Byron.

oderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.

g in South America and the West Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. [Written also capivi.]

To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime.