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The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.

Disposed. [Archaic] Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10.

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

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. Hooker.

Affixture. [Obs.] T. Adams.

A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.

stance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak.

Free from affliction.

The act of flowing towards; afflux. Sir T. Browne.

The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.

The act of rubbing against. [Obs.]

The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. Specifically: (Med)

Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison.

Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).

A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

Without ganglia.

The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.

A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.