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To infatuate. [Obs.] Milton.

act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay.

ly. Not that I so affirm, though so it seem To thee, who hast thy dwelling here on earth. Milton.

To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton.

etc.; to be able or rich enough. The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits. Hamilton. He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. Wordsworth.

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

.] I walked about, admired of all, and dreaded On hostile ground, none daring my affront. Milton.

To, in, or on the field. "We drove afield." Milton. How jocund did they drive their team afield! Gray.

ear; apprehensive. [Afraid comes after the noun it limits.] "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton.

or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.

with wonder, expectation, or eager attention. Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape. Milton.

s. "The spirit of the age." Prescott. Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness. Milton. Archeological ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed st…

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

To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil." Milton.

disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and t…

Helpless; without aid. Milton.

t or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. Milton.

Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aërial; as, an airy flight. "The airy region." Milton.

for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. Milton.

The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence. Sir W. Hamilton.