ppl. a. [A specialized variant of AFFECTED.] Compounded. Of equations in Algebra: Containing different powers of an unknown quantity.
1695. Alingham, Geom. Epit., 89. The Method of finding the root of an adfected equation.
1728. Campbell, in Phil. Trans., XXXV. 515. Every adfected quadratick Equation ax2 – Bx + A = 0, whose Roots are real.
1870. Todhunter, Algebra, xx. 169. Quadratic equations which contain the first power of the unknown quantity as well as the square are called adfected quadratics.
