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A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath. Bouvier.

t with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.

icted; a state of pain, distress, or grief. Some virtues are seen only in affliction. Addison.

Affluence. [Obs.] Addison.

d life affords consolation in old age. His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.

To make free; to enfranchise. Johnson.

The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others. Blackstone.

The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread. B. Jonson.

can any one imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius Addison.

ng water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease. Dunglison.

Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison.

Anew; again; once more; newly. They crucify . . . the Son of God afresh. Heb. vi. 6.

takes after his father. To name or call after, to name like and reference to. Our eldest son was named George after his uncle. Goldsmith.

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

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

tion; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time. The gate would have been shut against her. Fielding. An argument against the use of steam. Tyndale.

An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage. Foxe.

A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. [Obs.] Shak.

Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. Abbott.