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; high rank; distinction; preferment. Milton. You 've too a woman's heart, which ever yet Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty. Shak.

Affected with emotion. [R.] "The emotioned soul." Sir W. Scott.

Strongly affected. [Obs.] The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.

Affected with ennui; weary in spirits; emotionally exhausted.

A woman affected with ennui. Mrs. Jameson.

One who writes in an affectedly pointed style. Epigrammatizers of our English prose style. Coleridge.

Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy.

A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.

Affected with the ergot fungus; as, ergotized rye.

lied esp. to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction.

Belonging to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined.

Shak. It went evil with his house. 1 Chron. vii. 23. The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us. Deut. xxvi. 6.

exchange rarely varies, and serves as a measure for the rise and fall of exchange that is affected by the demand and supply. Exchange is at par when, for example, a bill in New York, for the payment of one hundred pounds sterling in London, can be purchased for the sum. Exchange is in favor of a place when it can be pu…

The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.

use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views. The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India. Thirwall.

To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of. If ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not be attributed to their size. Berke.

A person affected by excessive enthusiasm, particularly on religious subjects; one who indulges wild and extravagant notions of religion. There is a new word, coined within few months, called fanatics, which, by the close stickling thereof, seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signify what is meant thereby, even th…

To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain. Teach me to feel another's woe. Pope. Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. Eccl. viii. 5. He best can paint them who shall feel them most. Pope. Manki…

Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.