Obs. [f. AFFECTATE a., or L. affectāt- ppl. stem of affectā-re: see prec.] A more Latinized by-form of AFFECT v.1
1560. J. Daus, Sleidane’s Comm., 134 b. He … maye not affectate rule and gouernment, and playe the tyraunt.
1582. G. Martin, Discov., in Fulke’s Def. (1843), 202. You affectate to thrust the word ‘image’ into the text, when there is no such thing in the Hebrew or Greek.
1588. Fraunce, Lawiers Logike, I. iv. 27. The like absurditie would it bee … to affectate such woordes as were quite worne out at heeles and elbowes long before the nativitie of Geffrey Chawcer.
1595. Lodge, Def. Stage Plays (1853), 9. What made Austin so much affectate that heavenly fury?
