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Full of passion or emotion; earnest. [Obs.] -- Af*fec"tu*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.] Fabyan.

To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness. They had attempted to disaffect and discontent his majesty's late army. Clarendon.

Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal. J. H. Newman. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ness, n.

State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike. In the making laws, princes must have regard to . . . the affections and disaffections of the people. Jer. Taylor.

Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. [R.] Blount.

Freedom from affectation; naturalness. [R.]

Unaffected. [Obs.] -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. [Obs.]

To dislike. [Obs.]

Ill disposed. [Obs.]

An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To affect or care for unduly. [Obs.] Milton.

Not affected or moved; destitute of affection or emotion; uninfluenced. A poor, cold, unspirited, unmannered, Unhonest, unaffected, undone fool. J. Fletcher.

bsent air. What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man. Chesterfield.

Affected refusal; coyness.

A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands.

Pertaining to or affecting the surface.

Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.

els, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

See Affected, 5.

To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at. To wonder at Pharaoh, and even admire at myself. Fuller.