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affected, ppl. a.|əˈfɛktɪd|
[f. affect + -ed. Really consists of three words: 1. pa. pple. of affect v.1 = earlier affectate; 2. adj. f. affect n. + -ed; 3. pa. pple. of affect v.2 To some extent the senses are confused, through the formal identity of the words.]
I. Pa. pple. of affect v.1, = earlier affectate.
†1. Sought after, aimed at, desired. Obs.
1597Daniel Civ. Wares v. xc, Twixt Yorke, and the affected sov'raignty. 1602Carew Cornw. 14 b, With other lesse beneficiall and affected commodities. 1608Bp. Hall Epistles i. iii, It is at once had and affected. 1649Milton Eikon. Pref. (1847) 274/1 A work assigned rather than by me chosen or affected.
†2. Fondly held, cherished; entertained of choice, intentional. Obs.
1589T. B. tr. La Primaudaye's Fr. Acad. 150 Man having by nature imprinted in his soule an affected and earnest inclination to his soveraigne good. 1623W. Lisle tr. Sax. Treat. on O. & N.T. Pref. 13 Grosse, wilfull, and affected ignorance. 1640Prerog. Parl. in Sel. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 241 Make the world know, that his cruelty was not affected. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. I. 171 Their Love and Preference of Darkness is more affected and obstinate.
†3. Loved, beloved. Obs.
1600Chapman Iliad viii. 318 In all the desperate hours Of his affected Hercules. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia (1629) 78 They should live with Powhatan as his chiefe affected. 1626W. Sandys Ovid's Metam. 216 Her speare..Kist his affected lips without a wound. 1640Fuller Joseph's Coat viii. (1867) 190 Some sacrifice the reverence to this admired preacher, and others almost adore that affected pastor. 1654Gayton Festiv. Notes iv. ii. 183 His love to his affected, though some 106 years posthumus Kinsman.
4. Assumed or displayed artificially; put on for effect: non-natural, artificial, stilted, ‘got up.’
1594C[arew] Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 136 To haue a readie tongue of his own, and not affected, choice words. 1642Milton Argt. conc. Militia A 4, I have not used any affected style. 1678Rochester in Shaksp. Cent. Praise 364 But does not Dryden find..Shake-spear's stile Stiff and affected? 1723J. Sheffield (D. of Buckhm.) Wks. 1753 I. 51 An air affected, and a haughty mien; Something that seems to say, I would be seen. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 645 His diction, affected and florid, but often singularly beautiful and melodious, fascinated many young enthusiasts.
5. Assumed falsely or in outward semblance merely; pretended, simulated.
1663Gerbier Counsel g i a, Those Lines must be visible, no affected ones, nor small as a haire. 1679Sheffield & Dryden Ess. on Sat. 67 Dissembling still in either place, Affected humour, or a painted face. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 153 ⁋11 Without any of the heir's affected grief or secret exultation. 1850Lynch Theoph. Trinal v. 85 This their dull sadness..is affected and heartless. 1879McCarthy Hist. own Times I. 30 His real or affected levity gave way to a genuine and lasting desire to make her life happy.
6. Of persons: Full of affectation; non-natural or artificial in manner, pretentious, assuming airs. (An extension of 4; not directly from pa. pple.)
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. i. 15 He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odde. 1689Shadwell Bury Fair i. i. 122 Conceited affected Jades. 1703Rowe Fair Penit. ii. i. 440 Each affected She that tells my story. 1735Pope Hor. Ep. ii. i. 105 Damn all Shakespear, like th' affected Fool. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Journ. I. 157 She seemed to be her actual self, and nothing affected or made up.
II. = earlier affect ppl. a., L. affectus. [whence formed by distinctive ppl. ending -ed; or from affect n. + -ed2, as in mind-ed, will-ed, etc.]
1. Having an affection (formerly affect), disposition, or inclination of any kind; disposed, inclined.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinsh. III. 372/2 That will judge to the contrarie, unless he be parciallie affected. 1598Barret Theor. Warres i. ii. 12 Let him make choise of the armes..whereunto he findeth himselfe most affected and fit. 1611Cotgr., Addonné, given, bent, affected, addicted, inclined. 1611Bible 2 Macc. xiv. 5 And asked how the Iewes stood affected. 1682Hewer in Pepys' Diary VI. 144 Variously discoursed of as people were affected and inclined. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 151 How stands the country affected towards you? c1815Jane Austen Persuasion (1833) II. ix. 390 You might, some time or other, be differently affected towards him.
b. Usually with the direction of the affection or disposition indicated by well, ill, etc. Well- or ill-disposed, or -conditioned (mentally).
1553–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 136/1 If anie good men were well affected or minded toward religion. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. i. 100 No maruaile then, though he were ill affected. 1611Bible Acts xiv. 2 Made their mindes euill affected against the brethren. 1647J. Sprigge Ang. Rediv. iv. ix. (1854) 315 Many well affected citizens also went forth. a1674Clarendon Hist. Rebell. II. vi. 90 The Major part..being cordially Affected to the Government. 1832Lytton Eug. Aram. ix. 60 You are an honest man, and well affected to our family.
†2. esp. Having a favourable affection or inclination; favourably disposed or inclined; attached, partial (to). Obs., but cf. dis-affected.
1535Stewart Cron. Scotl. II. 557 On to his sone affectit so wes he. 1553–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 136/2 Ethelstan..was so affected towards Odo. 1584A. Munday (title) A Watchwoord to Englande..Written by a faithfull affected Freend to his Country. 1618Shoemaker's Holiday i. (1862) 6, I hear my cousin Lacy Is much affected to your daughter Rose. 1622Heylin Cosmogr. iv. (1682) 93 The men are much affected to hunting. 1690Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 319 On suspicion of being affected to King James.
†3. Of bodily disposition or tendency: -conditioned; -disposed. ill-affected = indisposed. Obs.
1586T. B. tr. La Primaudaye's Fr. Acad. ii. (1594) 139 When the bodie is well affected. 1615Latham Falconry (1633) 104 When you do perceive your Hawke to be ill affected in that place.
III. Pa. pple. of affect v.2 = L. affectus. Apparently first = ‘laid hold of’ by a disease (L. affectus morbo), and so apparently connected with II. 3, above; then extended to what lays hold of, touches, or moves the mind or feelings, or moves physically.
1. a. Laid hold of (by a disease), under the influence of; attacked, seized, afflicted; tainted, distempered, diseased. Const. with.
a1619Donne Biathan. 63 To confesse, that those times were affected with a disease of this naturall desire of such a death. 1633T. N[ewton] Lemnie's Touchst. Complex. 120 The body is mutually affected, and alike distempered. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v. Affection, The sick are frequently mistaken as to the place affected. 1806T. Paine Yellow Fever in Misc. Wks. II. 180 Of the same extent as the affected part of a city. 1857T. Watson Lect. Physic xxviii. (ed. 4) 502 To conclude that the side towards which the mouth was drawn was the affected side. 1864Daily Tel. 26 May, The accused was mentally affected, her father and three of her aunts having all been insane. 1868Public Opin. 2 May 460/1 On examination of the affected region with the hand.
†b. fig. Seized or possessed. Obs.
1579Lyly Euphues (1636) G b, Lest being affected with barbarisme, they be also infected with their vncleane conuersation. 1656N. Bernard Life of Ussher 28 He was so affected with chronology and antiquity.
†2. Mentally influenced, moved, impressed; interested or taken up. Const. with. Obs.
1626Massinger Rom. Actor Ded., Such as are only affected with jigs and ribaldry. 1673True Worship of God 64 If Pulpit Discourses were not so frequent, people would be more affected with them. 1756Burke Subl. & B. Wks. I. 173 The imagination and passions are little or nothing affected.
3. Moved, influenced, or touched in the feelings; usually to sympathy, sorrow, or sadness. Const. by (with obs.).
1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts 32 Hee is more affected with the recovering of that one sheepe..than with the safety of the rest. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 187 ⁋2 Ajut was so much affected by the fondness of her lover. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. 53 Deeply affected by his own reproaches. 1855Prescott Philip II, i. i. (Routl.) 9 They were deeply affected, and not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly.
4. Moved, influenced, acted upon, physically or materially. Const. by (with obs.).
1748Hartley Observ. Man i. i. §1. 30 The Vibrations..may be affected with four sorts of Differences. 1762Dunn in Phil. Trans. LII. 468 Trees and bushments of equal magnitude at other times, but in their affected state as much larger. 1783George III in Dk. of Buckingham Crt. Geo. III, II. 219 Preventing the public finances from being materially affected. 1849Murchison Siluria iv. 71 The latter strata, affected..by a slaty cleavage. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 188 The water is affected even more than the land.
†5. Math. Compounded; = adfected, the special form now restricted to this sense. Obs.
1717B. Taylor Extr. of Roots in Phil. Trans. XXX. 610 Method of extracting the Roots of affected Equations. 1802Woodhouse ibid. XCII. 115 The terms affected with xn.
†b. by extension. Obs.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. 1834, 276 He had his proper name affected with the agnominal addition of Parresiastes.
6. Specially applied; appointed, assigned, allotted; attributed. (Cf. Fr. affecté and affect v.2 5.)
1611Cotgr., Nanti..affected unto; fastened or tied on; appointed, or pointed out for; or to whom a thing is affected; on whom it is fastened; for whom it is appointed. 1850Thackeray Pendennis xxii. (1863) 181 A female servant..affected to his private use. 1871Daily News (Let. fr. Paris) 21 Jan., Horses..affected to military purposes. |