ppl. a. [f. AFFECT + -ED. Really consists of three words: 1. pa. pple. of AFFECT v.1 = earlier affectate; 2. adj. f. AFFECT sb. + -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.
1597. Daniel, Civ. Wares, V. xc. Twixt Yorke, and the affected sov’raignty.
1602. Carew, Cornw., 14 b. With other lesse beneficiall and affected commodities.
1608. Bp. Hall, Epistles, I. iii. It is at once had and affected.
1649. Milton, Eikonokl., Pref. (1847), 274/1. A work assigned rather than by me chosen or affected.
† 2. Fondly held, cherished; entertained of choice, intentional. Obs.
1586. T. B., trans. La Primaudaye’s Fr. Acad., 150. Man having by nature imprinted in his soule an affected and earnest inclination to his soveraigne good.
1623. W. Lisle, trans. Sax. Treat. on O. & N. T., Pref. 13. Grosse, wilfull, and affected ignorance.
1640. Prerog. Parl., in Sel. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793), 241. Make the world know, that his cruelty was not affected.
1705. Stanhope, Paraphr., I. 171. Their Love and Preference of Darkness is more affected and obstinate.
† 3. Loved, beloved. Obs.
1600. Chapman, Iliad, VIII. 318. In all the desperate hours Of his affected Hercules.
1624. Capt. Smith, Virginia (1629), 78. They should live with Powhatan as his chiefe affected.
1626. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Metam., 216. Her speare … Kist his affected lips without a wound.
1640. Fuller, Joseph’s Coat, viii. (1867), 190. Some sacrifice the reverence to this admired preacher, and others almost adore that affected pastor.
1654. Gayton, 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.’
1594. C[arew], Huarte’s Exam. Wits (1616), 136. To haue a readie tongue of his own, and not affected, choice words.
1642. Milton, Militia, A 4. I have not used any affected style.
1678. Rochester, in Shaksp. Cent. Praise, 364. But does not Dryden find … Shake-spear’s stile Stiff and affected?
1723. J. Sheffield (D. of Buckhm.), Wks., 1753, I. 51. An air affected, and a haughty mien; Something that seems to say, I would be seen.
1855. Macaulay, 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.
1663. Gerbier, Counsel, g i a. Those Lines must be visible, no affected ones, nor small as a haire.
1679. Sheffield & Dryden, Ess. on Sat., 67. Dissembling still in either place, Affected humour, or a painted face.
1751. Johnson, Rambler, No. 153, ¶ 11. Without any of the heir’s affected grief or secret exultation.
1850. T. T. Lynch, Theoph. Trinal, v. 85. This their dull sadness … is affected and heartless.
1879. McCarthy, 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.)
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., V. i. 15. He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odde.
1689. Shadwell, Bury Fair, I. i. 122. Conceited affected Jades.
1703. Rowe, Fair Penit., II. i. 440. Each affected She that tells my story.
1735. Pope, Hor. Ep., II. i. 105. Damn all Shakespear, like th’ affected Fool.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., 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 sb. + -ED2, as in mind-ed, will-ed, etc.]
1. Having an affection (formerly affect), disposition, or inclination of any kind; disposed, inclined.
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 372/2. That will judge to the contrarie, unless he be parciallie affected.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, I. ii. 12. Let him make choise of the armes … whereunto he findeth himselfe most affected and fit.
1611. Cotgr., Addonné, given, bent, affected, addicted, inclined.
1611. Bible, 2 Macc. xiv. 5. And asked how the Iewes stood affected.
1682. Hewer, in Pepys’ Diary, VI. 144. Variously discoursed of as people were affected and inclined.
1684. Bunyan, Pilgr., II. 151. How stands the country affected towards you?
c. 1815. Miss Austen, Persuas. (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).
1553–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 136/1. If anie good men were well affected or minded toward religion.
1605. Shaks., Lear, II. i. 100. No maruaile then, though he were ill affected.
1611. Bible, Acts xiv. 2. Made their mindes euill affected against the brethren.
1647. Sprigg, Ang. Rediv., IV. ix. (1854), 315. Many well affected citizens also went forth.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Rebell., II. VI. 90. The Major part … being cordially Affected to the Government.
1832. Lytton, Eugene A., ix. 60. You are an honest man, and well affected to our family.
† 2. esp. Having a favorable affection or inclination; favorably disposed or inclined; attached, partial (to). Obs., but cf. dis-affected.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scotl., II. 557. On to his sone affectit so wes he.
1553–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 136/2. Ethelstan … was so affected towards Odo.
1584. A. Munday (title), A Watchwoord to Englande … Written by a faithfull affected Freend to his Country.
1618. Shoemaker’s Holiday, i. (1862), 6. I hear my cousin Lacy Is much affected to your daughter Rose.
1622. Heylin, Cosmogr., IV. (1682), 93. The men are much affected to hunting.
1690. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), II. 319. On suspicion of being affected to King James.
† 3. Of bodily disposition or tendency: -conditioned; -disposed. Ill-affected = indisposed. Obs.
1586. T. B., trans. La Primaudaye’s Fr. Acad., II. (1594), 139. When the bodie is well affected.
1615. Latham, 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. Laid hold of (by a disease), under the influence of; attacked, seized, afflicted; tainted, distempered, diseased. Const. with.
a. 1614. Donne, Βιαθανατος, 63. To confesse, that those times were affected with a disease of this naturall desire of such a death.
1633. T. N[ewton], Lemnie’s Touchst. Complex., 120. The body is mutually affected, and alike distempered.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Affection, The sick are frequently mistaken as to the place affected.
1806. T. Paine, Yellow Fever, in Misc. Wks., II. 180. Of the same extent as the affected part of a city.
1857. T. Watson, Lect. Physic, xxviii. (ed. 4), 502. To conclude that the side towards which the mouth was drawn was the affected side.
1864. Daily Tel., 26 May. The accused was mentally affected, her father and three of her aunts having all been insane.
1868. Public Opin., 2 May, 460/1. On examination of the affected region with the hand, an induration may usually be felt under the skin.
† b. fig. Seized or possessed. Obs.
1579. Lyly, Euphues (1636), G b. Lest being affected with barbarisme, they be also infected with their vncleane conuersation.
1656. N. 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.
1626. Massinger, Rom. Actor, Ded. Such as are only affected with jigs and ribaldry.
1673. True Worship of God, 64. If Pulpit Discourses were not so frequent, people would be more affected with them.
1756. Burke, 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.).
1633. Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, 32. Hee is more affected with the recovering of that one sheepe … than with the safety of the rest.
1751. Johnson, Rambler, No. 187, ¶ 2. Ajut was so much affected by the fondness of her lover.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., III. 53. Deeply affected by his own reproaches.
1855. Prescott, 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.).
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, I. i. § 1. 30. The Vibrations … may be affected with four sorts of Differences.
1762. Dunn, in Phil. Trans., LII. 468. Trees and bushments of equal magnitude at other times, but in their affected state as much larger.
1783. George III., in Dk. of Buckingham’s Crt. Geo. III., II. 219. Preventing the public finances from being materially affected.
1849. Murchison, Siluria, iv. 71. The latter strata, affected … by a slaty cleavage.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 188. The water is affected even more than the land.
† 5. Math. Compounded; = ADFECTED, the special form now restricted to this sense. Obs.
1717. B. Taylor, Extr. of Roots, in Phil. Trans., XXX. 610. Method of extracting the Roots of affected Equations.
1802. Woodhouse, ibid., XCII. 115. The terms affected with xn.
† b. by extension. Obs.
1652. Urquhart, 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.)
1611. Cotgr., 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.
1850. Thackeray, Pendennis, xxii. (1863), 181. A female servant … affected to his private use.
1871. Daily News (Let. fr. Paris), 21 Jan., 6/1 The horses, too, will soon come to an end, unless we shut ourselves up, and eat all those affected to military purposes.
