Word Meanings - MEDICO-LEGAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.
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- AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - 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. - MEDICALLY
In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art. - 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. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - 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. - 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.