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Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.

The quality or state of being affectible. [R.]

An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.

Companionship; acquaintance. [Obs.] About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. Burton.

rtion; a positive as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.

Positive; -- a term applied to quantities which are to be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted.

A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray. "In the very midst of the affray." Motley.

affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

The quality that gives an affront or offense. [R.] Bailey.

Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, half as much again.

A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

The quality of being aged; oldness. Custom without truth is but agedness of error. Milton.

To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body. They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon. Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to am equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.…

An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness. Thackeray.

The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope.