formerly also pple. [Latinized adaptation of Fr. affectionné pple. and adj., on analogy of orné, ornate, déterminé, determinate, etc. See -ATE2. Parallel forms are AFFECTION -ED with the Eng. ppl. ending, and AFFECTIONATED with that ending added, as in nominate, nominated, separate, separated.]
† I. = Pa. pple. of AFFECTION v. Cf. Fr. affectionné. Held in affection, beloved. Obs. rare.
1494. Fabyan, VII. 675 (1811). Another of the affeccionat seruantes of kyng Lowys … and thus two of the derest beloued seruantes.
II. adj. Possessed of affection. Cf. AFFECTIONED.
† 1. Mentally affected, disposed, inclined. Obs.
1533. More, Answ. to Poysoned Bk., Wks. 1557, 1053/2. Heare howe Christes audience … wer affeccionate to this euerlasting liuely bred. Ibid. (a. 1535), Wks., 584 (R.). The wille as it happeth … at the time to be well or euill affectionate.
1540. Whitinton, Tully’s Offyces, III. 121. If we shall be so affectionate that euery man shall spoyle and robbe … an other man.
1657. Penit. Conf., ix. 282. Thus stood St. Paul affectionate unto the Corinthians.
† 2. Unduly affected, biased, prejudiced, partial. Obs.
1530. Palsgr., 328/2. Upright, indifferent bytwene party and party, and not affectionate.
1553–87. Foxe, A. & M., 865 b. Judges not indifferent but very much affectionate against me.
1589. Bp. Cooper, Admon., 129. It is but an affectionate iudgement of some, when they impute the onelie cause to be in bishops.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VII. xliv. 358. Subiect to the censures of euery affectionate and malignant reporter.
† 3. Passionate, wilful, self-willed, headstrong, obstinate. Obs.
1542. Udall, trans. Erasm. Apophth. (1874), 35. Affeccionate appetites, perturbyng and corruptyng, the tranquilitee of the mynde.
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 774. He … was not pityful, and stode affectionate in his owne opinion.
1554. Knox, Faythfull Admon., E iv. The vsurped gouernment of an affectionate woman is a rage without reason.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXVI. ii. 583/3. The inconsiderate wils of rash affectionate souldiours.
1726. Penn, Tracts, in Wks., I. 478. The affectionate Passions, and voluntary Humilities, of a Sort of People, whose Judgment goes always in the rear of their Affections.
† 4. Eager, ambitious, earnest. Obs.
1598. Florio, Zelatore, a iealous affectionate man.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. vii. § 2 (1873). I am … zealous and affectionate to recede as little from antiquity.
1654. Marvell, Corr., Let. 2 Wks. 1875, II. 12. I have an affectionate curiosity to know.
1705. Stanhope, Paraphr., III. 424. No Man is more affectionate in pressing a good Life than this Apostle.
1750. Johnson, Rambler, No. 87, ¶ 5. Their labours, however zealous or affectionate, are frequently useless.
† 5. Well affected, kindly inclined, favorable (to a proposal or thing). Obs.
1543. State Pap. Hen. VIII., I. 754. I am thought affectionate to these parties bere.
1622. Bacon, Hen. VII., 50. They being affectionate unto the quarrell of Britaine.
1647. May, Hist. Parl., II. vi. 104. The Trained Bands were … so affectionate to that cause.
1761. Hume, Hist. Eng., I. xv. 370. Tournay … containing above sixty thousand inhabitants who were affectionate to the French government.
b. quasi-sb. A well-affected person, a favorer. rare.
1628. Earle, Microcosm., lvi. 122. Men esteem him for this a zealous affectionate, but they mistake him many times, for he does it but to be esteemed so.
6. Of persons, animals: Having warm regard or love, loving, fond, tenderly disposed.
1586. James VI., in Ellis, Orig. Lett., I. 224. III. 22. Youre most loving and affectionat brother and Cousin James R.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., Ded. 1. This generall ioy of affectionate and loyall subjects.
1605. Shaks., Lear, IV. vi. 276. Your (Wife, so I would say,) affectionate Seruant. Gonerill.
1769. Junius Lett., xxxv. 154. Your subjects … are affectionate enough to separate your person from your government.
1814. Southey, Roderick, viii. Wks. IX. 76. A gentle heart, a soul affectionate, A joyous spirit fill’d with generous thoughts.
1879. Geo. Eliot, Theo. Such, vi. 119. An affectionate-hearted creature.
7. Of things: Expressing or indicating love or affection; tender.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia, I. (1593), 21 (T.). Beholding this picture, I know not with how affectionate countenance, but, I am sure with a most affectionate mind.
1655. Digges, Compl. Ambass., 144. To present his affectionate Commendations unto her Majestie.
1725. De Foe, Voy. round World (1840), 158. The affectionate carriage of this poor woman to her infant.
1756. Burke, Subl. & B., Wks. I. 236. The French and Italians make use of these affectionate diminutives even more than we.
1855. Prescott, Philip II., I. iv. 74. Philip, taking an affectionate farewell … took the road to Dover.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., IV. lxii. 238. Babli, by which affectionate-sounding diminutive is meant [etc.].
