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With love; affectionately.

Affection; kind regard. The only two bands of good will, loveliness and lovingness. Sir. P. Sidney.

Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing attachment. She that had all magnetic force alone. Donne.

Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections. "By the magnetism of interest our affections are irresistibly attracted." Glanvill. Animal magnetism, a force, more or less analogous to magnetism, which, it has been alleged, is produced in animal tissues, and passes from one body to another…

a galericulata), often domesticated, and regarded by the Chinese as an emblem of conjugal affection. -- Mandarin language, the spoken or colloquial language of educated people in China. -- Mandarin yellow (Chem.), an artificial aniline dyestuff used for coloring silk and wool, and regarded as a complex derivative of…

Of or pertaining to a husband; as, marital rights, duties, authority. "Marital affection." Ayliffe.

Moderately. [Obs.] A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.

ood provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.

An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss. -- a.

em the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances. Locke.

refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural and monstrous in his affections. Jer. Taylor.

he duties of men in their social character; ethics. The end of morality is to procure the affections to obey reason, and not to invade it. Bacon. The system of morality to be gathered out of ... ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. Swift.

To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble. With fasting mortified, worn out with tears. Harte. Mortify thy learned lust. Prior. Mortify, rherefore, your members which are upon the earth. Col. iii. 5.…

Exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal. I sang an old moving story. Coleridge. Moving force (Mech.), a force that accelerates, retards, or deflects the motion of a body. -- Moving plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans…

One whose affections and energies are withered. Mummy brown, a brown color, nearly intermediate in tint between burnt umber and raw umber. A pigment of this color is prepared from bitumen, etc., obtained from Egyptian tombs. -- Mummy wheat (Bot.), wheat found in the ancient mummy cases of Egypt. No botanist now believ…

Any affection of the muscles or muscular system.

Natural affection or reverence. Have we not seen The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, Through violated nature foce his way Pope.

Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend.

An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.

A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.