Affected definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary AFFECT'ED, pp. 1. Impressed ... danger, and the like; as, we are more or less affected by the failure of the bank. 2. Touched in the feelings; having the feelings excited; as, affected with cold or heat. 3. Having the passions moved; as, affected with sorrow or joy. 4. a. Inclined, or disposed; followed by to; as, well affected to government. 5. a. Given to false show; assuming, or ... to possess what is not natural or real; as, an affected lady. 6. a. Assumed artificially; not natural; as, affected ...
affected role definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the ... is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause [syn: affected role, patient role, patient]
... interests. 2. To act upon, or move the passions; as, affected with grief. 3. To aim at; aspire to; desire or ... not natural, or real; as, to affect to be grave; affected friendship. It seems to have been used formerly for convict ... to produce a material influence upon or alteration in < paralysis affected his limbs > b. to act upon (as a person or ... stimulus that can produce a response or reaction < the sight affected her to tears >. influence implies a force that brings about ... on. b (of a disease etc.) attack (his liver is affected). 2 move; touch the feelings of (affected me deeply). Usage: Often confused with effect, which as ...
... s 1828 Dictionary SICK, a. [Qu.Gr. squeamish, lothing.] 1. Affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach ... of his master as of his work. L'Estrange. 3. Affected with a disease of any kind; not in health; followed ... use nor proper.] 5. The sick, the person or persons affected with the disease. The sick are healed. SICK, v.t ... for the sick. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function; "ill ... about to vomit [syn: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish] 3: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad ... light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid, wan, sick] 6: deeply affected by a strong feeling; "sat completely still, sick with ...
... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PARALYT'IC PARALYT'ICAL, a. Affected with palsy; deprived of the power of muscular motion; sometimes ... Inclined or tending to palsy. PARALYT'IC, n. A person affected with palsy. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: relating ... the nature of paralysis; "paralytic symptoms" [syn: paralytic, paralytical] 2: affected with paralysis [syn: paralytic, paralyzed] n 1: a person suffering ... paralyticus, from Greek paralytikos, from paralyein Date: 14th century 1. affected with, characterized by, or causing paralysis 2. of, relating to ... resembling paralysis • paralytically adverb II. noun Date: 14th century one affected with paralysis Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. & n. --adj. 1 affected by paralysis. 2 sl. very drunk. --n. a person ...
... capable of indicating minute differences ; delicate < sensitive scales > e. readily affected or changed by various agents (as light or mechanical shock ... 1 (often foll. by to) very open to or acutely affected by external stimuli or mental impressions; having sensibility. 2 (of ... to the action of light. b (of any material) readily affected by or responsive to external action. 5 (of a topic ... upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected. She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny. --Macaulay. 3. (a) (Mech.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales. (b) (Chem. & Photog.) Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride ...
... ball. 3. To speak with a whining voice, or an affected singing tone. [In this sense, it is usually intransitive.] 4 ... sense.] 2. A whining, singing manner of speech; a quaint, affected mode of uttering words either in conversation or preaching. 3 ... jargon 3. to talk hypocritically VI. noun Date: 1640 1. affected singsong or whining speech 2. a. the private language of ... i. 1. To speak in a whining voice, or an affected, singsong tone. 2. To make whining pretensions to goodness; to ... What does he else but cant. --B. Jonson That uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language, if I may so ... used by beggars, fr. L. cantus. See Chant.] 1. An affected, singsong mode of speaking. 2. The idioms and peculiarities ...
... voice; as, children often read with a tone. 4. An affected sound in speaking. 5. In music, an interval of sound ... sound or firm. TONE, v.t. To utter with an affected tone. 1. To tune. [See Tune.] WordNet (r) 3.0 ... by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible. Would your cambric were sensible as ... finger. --Shak. 3. Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer. ``With affection ... to refuse. --Addison. 5. Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil. 6. Possessing or containing ...
... were forced to mince the matter. 3. To speak with affected softness; to clip words; not to utter the full sound ... v.i. To walk with short steps; to walk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner. I'll turn two ... they go. Isaiah 3. 1. To speak softly, or with affected nicety. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: food chopped ... intransitive verb to walk with short steps in a prim affected manner • mincer noun II. noun Date: 1600 1. small chopped ... intr. (usu. as mincing adj.) speak or walk with an affected delicacy. --n. esp. Brit. minced meat. Phrases and idioms: mince ... To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner. The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk ...
... Made a sharer; as one interested in the funds. 1. Affected; moved; having the passions excited; as one interested by a ... concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected; as an interested witness. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj ... the telephone"; "interested spectators" [ant: uninterested] 2: involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in; "a ... 1602 1. having the attention engaged < interested listeners > 2. being affected or involved < interested parties > • interestedly adverb Webster's 1913 Dictionary ... concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness. Webster's 1913 Dictionary ... inf 2. An interested party or group of people is affected by or involved in a particular event or situation. ...
... in one party. To take to heart, to be sensibly affected by; to feel any thing sensibly. To take advantage of ... us for spies. Genesis 42. take on, to be violently affected; as, the child takes on at a great rate. 1 ... aim, take, train, take aim, direct] 29: be seized or affected in a specified way; "take sick"; "be taken drunk" 30 ... the suitcase wouldn't take another thing > b. to be affected injuriously by (as a disease) ; contract < take cold >; also to ... fire or fever etc.). 16 tr. a experience or be affected by (take fright; take pleasure). b give play to (take ... secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part. 8. The final outcome or result; upshot; conclusion; ...
... sin upon him. Lex.19. 4. To undergo; to be affected by. Substances suffer an entire change by the action of ... by entering into new combinations. 5. To sustain; to be affected by; as, to suffer loss or damage. SUF'FER,v ... and support our pains. --Milton. 3. To undergo; to be affected by; to sustain; to experience; as, most substances suffer a ... illness or from some other bad condition, you are badly affected by it. He was eventually diagnosed as suffering from terminal ... n, V n 4. If you suffer, you are badly affected by an event or situation. There are few who have ... put up with, stand, pocket, stomach. 3. Undergo, sustain, be affected by, be acted upon. 4. Permit, allow, indulge, admit, ...