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To move or affect strongly with passion. [Archaic] Chapman.

Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.

To affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of. Dr. H. More.

Actuated or characterized by passion or zeal; showing warmth of feeling; ardent; animated; excited; as, an impassioned orator or discourse.

Want of compassion or pity. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.

Wrong passion or feeling. [Obs.]

To exceed in passion.

Passionate to excess. -- O"ver*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv.

Not passionate; dispassionate. -- Un*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv.

s self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak.

ood and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

A paroxysm; a fit of passion; an outburst; as, an access of fury. [A Gallicism]

e attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.

` phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.

Consideration; deliberation; consultation. Tempering the passion with advisement slow. Spenser.

To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.] Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. Spenser.

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

Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.