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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.

AFFECTIONATE a. 4 definitions

Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.

AFFECTIONATED a.

Disposed; inclined. [Obs.] Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.

AFFECTIONATELY adv.

With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.

AFFECTIONATENESS n.

The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.

AFFECTIONED a. 2 definitions

Disposed. [Archaic] Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10.

AFFILIATION n. 3 definitions

Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

AFFIRMATION n. 4 definitions

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. Hooker.

Affixture. [Obs.] T. Adams.

A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.

AFFLICTION n. 2 definitions

stance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak.

AFFLICTIONLESS a.

Free from affliction.

The act of flowing towards; afflux. Sir T. Browne.

AFFORESTATION n.

The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.

The act of rubbing against. [Obs.]

AFFUSION n. 2 definitions

The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. Specifically: (Med)

AFOREMENTIONED a.

Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison.

AFTER-MENTIONED a.

Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).

AFTERSENSATION n.

A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

Without ganglia.