That may be affected.
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Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight.
In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions.
The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.
Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.
Disposed; inclined.
With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
Disposed.
Tending to affect; affecting.
In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
Full of passion or emotion; earnest.
To confirm; to assure.
The act of affeering.
One who affeers.
Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.
With feeling.
Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.
To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.
One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.
One who makes an affidavit.
A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.
A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate.
To polish.
Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.
To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.
being joined in close association
Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
Related by marriage; from the same source.
To refine.
Joined in affinity or by any tie.
Of the nature of affinity.
Closely connected, as by affinity.
To declare or assert positively.
Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.
Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.
One who affirms or asserts.
Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.
That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; -- opposed to negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative.
a policy of making active efforts to improve the employment or educational opportunities available to members of minority groups or women; -- achieved by employers or schools by using various techniques, but excluding the use of simple quotas or outright discrimination against white males.
In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative.
One who affirms.
That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.
of or pertaining to an affix.
attached physically. Opposite of unaffixed.
of or pertaining to an affix.
Affixture.
The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment.
A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.
A breath or blast of wind.
Afflicted.
The state of being afflicted; affliction.
One who afflicts.
Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.
Free from affliction.
Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.
In an afflictive manner.
A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx.
Affluence.
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.
Abundantly; copiously.
Great plenty.
A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.
The act of flowing towards; afflux.
Asphodel.
To re/nforce; to strengthen.
A fortress; a fortification for defense.
See Afforcement.
To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.
That may be afforded.
Anything given as a help; bestowal.
To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
The act of converting into forest or woodland.
An affix.
To make free; to enfranchise.
The act of making free; enfranchisement.
To strike, or strike down.
The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
One engaged in an affray.
Affray.
To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.
One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.
A furious onset or attack.
A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.
The act of rubbing against.
Made friends; reconciled.
Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror.
With fright.
To frighten.
One who frightens.
Terrifying; frightful.
Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm.
An encounter either friendly or hostile.
Face to face, or front to front; facing.
Shamelessly.
One who receives an affront.
One who affronts, or insults to the face.
In an affronting manner.
Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive.
The quality that gives an affront or offense.
To pour out or upon.
The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease.
To trust or confide.
A native of Afghanistan.
a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan.
a mountainous country in central Asia.
a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan.
To, in, or on the field.
On fire.
In flames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze.
Level with the ground; flat.
In a flaunting state or position.
In a flickering state.
Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.
Flowing.
On a level.
In a flutter; agitated.
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