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ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient. Gov. of Tongue.

Pertaining to, or affected with, or attendant on, pellagra; as, pellagrous insanity.

Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life. Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Milton. The pound he tamed, the penitent he cheered. Dryden.

To be affected of influented by. [R.] The upper regions of the air perceive the collection of the matter of tempests before the air here below. Bacon.

The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility. [Obs.] This experiment discovereth perception in plants. Bacon.

ment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.

lm of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Of or pertaining to the Pietists; hence, in contempt, affectedly or demonstratively religious. Addison.

Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.

Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease. Bp. Hall.

Of the nature of a polypus; having many feet or roots, like the polypus; affected with polypus.

Affected with poppy juice; hence, figuratively, drugged; drowsy; listless; inactive. [R.] The poppied sails doze on the yard. Lowell.

netism) The north pole. [R.] -- Positive quantity (Alg.), an affirmative quantity, or one affected by the sign plus [+]. -- Positive rotation (Mech.), left-handed rotation. -- Positive sign (Math.), the sign [+] denoting plus, or more, or addition.

Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry. [U.S.]

An affected woman of polite society, esp. one of the literary women of the French salons of the 17th century.

Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.

Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense. The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world. Spectator.

utaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the parts affected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat glands, and is often brought on by overheating the skin in hot weather. -- Prickly pear (Bot.), a name given to several plants of the cactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants cons…

Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person. Swift.