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Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental. -- Miss"ish*ness, n.

An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss. -- a.

em the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances. Locke.

A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch. In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy. Macaulay.

A person affected by monomania.

Affected with monomania, or partial derangement of intellect; caused by, or resulting from, monomania; as, a monomaniacal delusion.

Paralysis affecting a single limb.

Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ, or set of organs.

ature; that which is monstrous; a monster. South. A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species. Adanson (Trans. ).

refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural and monstrous in his affections. Jer. Taylor.

A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.

Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.

Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.

The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.

he duties of men in their social character; ethics. The end of morality is to procure the affections to obey reason, and not to invade it. Bacon. The system of morality to be gathered out of ... ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. Swift.

To give a moral quality to; to affect the moral quality of, either for better or worse. Good and bad stars moralize not our actions. Sir T. Browne.

Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. "A morose and affected taciturnity." I. Watts.

Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly. The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright. Dryden.

To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble. With fasting mortified, worn out with tears. Harte. Mortify thy learned lust. Prior. Mortify, rherefore, your members which are upon the earth. Col. iii. 5.…

Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.