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Affected with, or characterized by, madness; maniac. -- Ma*ni"a*cal*ly, adv.

Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style is in some degree mannered and confined. Hazlitt.

Of or pertaining to a husband; as, marital rights, duties, authority. "Marital affection." Ayliffe.

Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.

Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. "Mealy-mouthed philanthropies." Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange. -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.

Moderately. [Obs.] A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.

To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure. "Medicine thee to that sweet sleep." Shak.

Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.

A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic. [Obs.] Dr. J. Scott.

One affected with a gloomy state of mind. J. Spenser.

One affected with melancholy or dejection. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.

To affect with mercury.

ood provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.

, a peculiar malignant disease, occurring in some parts of the Western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons who make use of the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremor…

A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in…

To affect; to make a parade of. [R.] Shak.

That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.

In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.

To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.