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To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility. C. Kingsley.

To preach or discourse to; to affect or influence by means of a sermon or of sermons. [R.] Which of us shall sing or sermonize the other fast asleep Landor.

Law), personal delivery or communication of the writ or process, etc., to the party to be affected by it, so as to subject him to its operation; the reading of it to the person to whom notice is intended to be given, or the leaving of an attested copy with the person or his attorney, or at his usual place of abode. --…

to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. Set your affection on things above. Col. iii. 2. The Lord set a mark upon Cain. Gen. iv. 15.

To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; -- usually followed by off. Darwin.

Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash.

Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope.

Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.

Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv. 18.

Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful. "Sideral blast." Milton.

of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major.

To smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner. Behold yond simpering dame. Shak. With a made countenance about her mouth, between simpering and smiling. ir. P. Sidney.

One who affects singularity. [Obs.] A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. Borrow.

Relating to, or affected with, hiccough. Dunglison.

Like a sister; becoming a sister, affectionate; as, sisterly kindness; sisterly remorse. Shak.

A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. [Slang] Fielding.

nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.

To affect in a certain way with a smile. [R.] And sharply smile prevailing folly dead. Young.

To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.

To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear. The charms that smite the simple heart. Pope. Smith with the love of sister arts we came. Pope. To smite off, to cut off. -- To smite out, to knock out, as a tooth. Exod,xxi.27. -- To smite with the tongue, to reproach or upbarid; to revile. [Obs.] Jer. xviii. 18.…