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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Affected

Ad-féct'ed, a.

adjective

a. [Fr. affecté; équation affectée; Lat. affectus, endowed, disposed.] (Alg.) Compounded; consisting of different powers of the unknown quantity; as, affected equations. See AFFECTED, No. 4.

Af-fēct'ed, p. a.

participial adjective
  1. Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] “This affected Hercules.” Chapman.
  2. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real. “Too affected, too odd.” Shak.
  3. Assumed artificially; not natural. “Affected coldness and indifference.” Addison.
  4. (Alg.) Same as ADFECTED.