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To 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.

An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. "An affectation of contempt." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. Locke.

Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak.

One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.

That may be affected. [R.] Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge.

Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight. The most affecting music is generally the most simple.

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.

Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.

Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.

To confirm; to assure. [Obs.] "The title is affeered." Shak.

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.

r marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage. To me, sad maid, he was affianced. Spenser.

A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.

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.

Closely connected, as by affinity.

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appelate court for review.

Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.

One who affirms or asserts.