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In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.

; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion I. Taylor.

Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages. There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity. Sir G. C. Lewis.

To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically. Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food. Ray.

t of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. Specifically: (Med)

on; entangled. Totten. To run afoul of, to run against or come into collision with, especially so as to become entangled or to cause injury.

A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.

A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development. J. S. Mill.

A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.

in and again, more than once; often; repeatedly. -- Now and again, now and then; occasionally. -- To and again, to and fro. [Obs.] De Foe.

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.

A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]

Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.

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

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.

That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.)

s in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. Luke xxii. 44.

An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque. [Mexico and Spanish America.]