Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AF-FEER'
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.
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