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AFFECTION n. 9 definitions

ibute; 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.

AFFECTIONATE a. 4 definitions

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

AFFECTIONATED a.

Disposed; inclined. [Obs.] Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.

AFFECTIONATELY adv.

With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.

AFFECTIONATENESS n.

The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.

AFFECTIONED a. 2 definitions

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

DISAFFECTION n. 2 definitions

State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike. In the making laws, princes must have regard to . . . the affections and disaffections of the people. Jer. Taylor.

DISAFFECTIONATE a.

Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. [R.] Blount.

MISAFFECTION n.

An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A pustular affection of the skin, due to changes in the sebaceous glands.

To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

AFFECT v. 2 definitions

To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.] As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. Fuller.

Fondness; affection. [Obs.] Hooker.

Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. Chapman.

Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.

AIL v. 2 definitions

sical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man I know not what ails him. What aileth thee, Hagar Gen. xxi. 17.

Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.

ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL n.

A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.

ALIENATE a. 2 definitions

Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.