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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Affect \Af*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Affected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Affecting}.] [L. affectus, p. p. of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make: cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See {Fact}.] 1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. [1913 Webster] As might affect the earth with cold heat. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The climate affected their health and spirits. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. [1913 Webster] A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles. [1913 Webster] 3. To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] 4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. [1913 Webster] For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] 5. To dispose or incline. [1913 Webster] Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] This proud man affects imperial ?way. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 7. To tend to by affinity or disposition. [1913 Webster] The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. --Newton. [1913 Webster] 8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. [1913 Webster] Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. --Congreve. [1913 Webster] Thou dost affect my manners. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 9. To assign; to appoint. [R.] [1913 Webster] One of the domestics was affected to his special service. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] Syn: To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt; soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Affect \Af*fect"\ ([a^]f*f[e^]kt"), n. [L. affectus.] 1. Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. (Psychotherapy) The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: affect n 1: the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion v 1: have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?" [syn: {affect}, {impact}, {bear upon}, {bear on}, {touch on}, {touch}] 2: act physically on; have an effect upon; "the medicine affects my heart rate" 3: connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business" [syn: {involve}, {affect}, {regard}] 4: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: {feign}, {sham}, {pretend}, {affect}, {dissemble}] 5: have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" [syn: {affect}, {impress}, {move}, {strike}] From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: affect /ɑfɛkt/ affection