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itude, etc. ; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. Cogan.

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

fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon; as, eyes affixed upon the ground. [Obs.] Spenser.

To make low or humble. [Obs.] Spenser. Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth. Jer. Taylor.

To strike, or strike down. [Obs.] Spenser.

Alarm; terror; fright. [Obs.] Spenser.

Affray. [Obs.] Spenser.

A furious onset or attack. [Obs.] Spenser.

Made friends; reconciled. [Obs.] "Deadly foes . . . affriended." Spenser.

Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.

ent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end. Spenser.

To affright; to terrify. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.

To please. [Obs.] Each one sought his lady to aggrate. Spenser.

To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends. [Obs.] Spenser.

Alike; similarly. [Obs.] Both clad in shepherds' weeds agreeably. Spenser.

To terrify; to affright. [Obs.] His manly face that did his foes agrise. Spenser.

To dress; to attire; to adorn. [Obs.] Above all knights ye goodly seem aguised. Spenser.

See Aglet. Spenser.

Although; albeit. [Obs.] Albe Clarissa were their chiefest founderess. Spenser.