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The southwest wind. Milton.

eceiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay.

e rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

r J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

To adopt; 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.

Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

Related by marriage; from the same source.

tinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.

To declare, as a fact, solemnly, under judicial sanction. See Affirmation, 4.

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

That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering "yes" to a question; -- opposed to negative; as, an affirmative answer; an affirmative vote.

To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment. They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. Exod. i. 11. That which was the worst now least afflicts me. Milton.

The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief. Some virtues are seen only in affliction. Addison.

The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.

To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

To frighten. [Archaic] "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.

To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility. How can any one imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius Addison.

Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South.

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