Word Meanings - LEPERIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To affect with leprosy.

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• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• LEPROSY
  A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTER
  One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
• AFFECTIVE
  1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• AFFECTIONATE
  1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
• AFFECTEDLY
  1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality. 2. Lovingly; with tender care. Shak.
• AFFECTEDNESS
  Affectation.
• AFFECTIBLE
  That may be affected. Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge.
• AFFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
• AFFECT
  + facere to make: cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. 1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay. 2. To influence
• AFFECTATION
  1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. "An affectation of contempt." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty
• AFFECTIONATENESS
  The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
• AFFECTED
  Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation. (more info) 1. Regarded with affection; beloved. His affected Hercules. Chapman. 2. Inclined; disposed; attached. How stand you affected his
• AFFECTUOUS
  Full of passion or emotion; earnest. -- Af*fec"tu*ous*ly, adv. Fabyan.
• AFFECTIONATELY
  With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
• MISAFFECTED
  Ill disposed.
• MISAFFECTION
  An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.
• DISAFFECTED
  Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal. J. H. Newman. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ness, n.
• DISAFFECTIONATE
  Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. Blount.