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Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.

Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.

Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken. [Obs.]

A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip. On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit. L'Estrange. Some to conceit alone their works confine, And glittering tho…

Conceit; affected sentiment or thought. [Obs.] He . . . is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticism. Dryden.

se things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts xxviii. 31. Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. Addison. It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. Dodsley. Ignorant, so far as the usua…

The use of concetti or affected conceits. [R.] C. Kingsley.

Affected wit; a conceit. Chesterfield.

Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires. Shak.

Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden.

Affected by contagion.

event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.

that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.

Affected with cramp.

led also Nile bird. It is the trochilos of ancient writers. -- Crocodile tears, false or affected tears; hypocritical sorrow; -- derived from the fiction of old travelers, that crocodiles shed tears over their prey.

Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.

Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanitic skin.

Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman. -- De*cay"ed*ness, n.

A device for restoring a coherer to its normal condition after it has been affected by an electric wave, a process usually accomplished by some method of tapping or shaking, or by rotation of the coherer.

The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.