Dictionary: AF-FECT'IVE – AF-FIRM'A-BLE

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AF-FECT'IVE, a.

That affects, or excites emotion; suited to affect. [Little used.]

AF-FECT'IVE-LY, adv.

In an affective or impressive manner.

AF-FECT'OR, or AF-FEC'TER, n.

One that affects; one that practices affectation.

AF-FECT'U-OUS, a.

Full of passion. [Not used.] – Leland.

AF-FEER', v.t.1 [Fr. affier, to set.]

To confirm. [Not used.]

AF-FEER', v.t.2 [Fr. afferer, affeurer, or afforer, to assess or value.]

In law, to assess or reduce an arbitrary penalty or amercement to a precise sum; to reduce a general amercement to a sum certain, according to the circumstances of the case. – Blackstone.

AF-FEER'ED, pp.

Moderated in sum; assessed; reduced to a certainty.

AF-FEER'MENT, n.

The act of affeering, or assessing an amercement, according to the circumstances of the case.

AF-FEER'OR, n.

One who affeers; a person sworn to assess a penalty, or reduce an uncertain penalty to a certainty. – Cowel.

AF-FET-TU-O'SO, adv. [or con affetto. It., from L. affectus.]

In music, a direction to render notes soft and affecting.

AF-FI'ANCE, n. [Norm. affiaunce, confidence; Fr. fiancer, to betroth; Sp. fianza, security in bail, afianzar, to give security or bail, from fiar, to trust, to bail, to confide in; Port. id.; Fr. fier, to trust; It. fidare, affidare, to trust, fidanza, confidence, fidanzare, to betroth, from L. fido, fides.]

  1. The marriage contract or promise; faith pledged.
  2. Trust in general; confidence; reliance. The Christian looks to God with implicit affiance. – Hammond.

AF-FI'ANCE, v.t.

  1. To betroth; to pledge one's faith or fidelity in marriage, or to promise marriage. To me, sad maid, he was affianced. – Spenser.
  2. To give confidence. Affianced in my faith. – Pope.

AF-FI'ANC-ED, pp.

Pledged in marriage; betrothed; bound in faith.

AF-FI'ANC-ER, n.

One who makes contract of marriage between parties.

AF-FI'ANC-ING, ppr.

Pledging in marriage; promising fidelity.

AF-FI-DA'VIT, n. [An old law verb in the perfect tense; he made oath; from ad and fides, faith.]

A declaration upon oath. In the United States, more generally, a declaration in writing, signed by the party, and sworn to, before an authorized magistrate.

AF-FI'ED, a. [or pp.]

Joined by contract; affianced. – Shak.

AF-FILE', v.t. [Fr. affiler.]

To polish. [Not used.] – Chaucer.

AF-FIL'I-ATE, v.t. [Fr. affilier, to adopt, to initiate into the mysteries of a religious order; L. ad and filius, a son.]

  1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son.
  2. To receive into a society as a member, and initiate in its mysteries, plans, or intrigues – a sense in which the word was much used by the Jacobins in France, during the revolution.

AF-FIL-I-A'TION, n.

Adoption; association in the same family or society.

AF'FIN-AGE, n.

A refining of metals.

AF-FIN'I-TY, n. [L. affinitas, from affinis, adjacent, related by marriage; ad and finis, end.]

  1. The relation contracted by marriage, between a husband and his wife's kindred, and between a wife and her husband's kindred; in contradistinction from consanguinity or relation by blood. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. – 1 Kings iii.
  2. Agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages.
  3. In chimistry, that attraction which takes place at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of bodies, and forms compounds.

AF-FIRM', v.i.

To declare solemnly before a court or magistrate, for confirming a fact, or to have an affirmation administered to, by way of confirmation, or as a substitute for an oath; as, the witness affirmed to the fact, or he was affirmed to the fact.

AF-FIRM', v.t. [afferm'; L. affirmo; ad and firmo, to make firm. See Firm.]

  1. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to declare the existence of something; to maintain as true, opposed to deny. Of one Jesus whom Paul affirmed to be alive. – Acts xxv.
  2. To make firm; to establish, confirm or ratify; as, the Supreme court affirmed the judgment.

AF-FIRM'A-BLE, a.

That may be asserted or declared; followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.