Affect
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
from kakos, "evil, to treat badly, to hurt," also means "to make evil affected, to embitter," Acts 14:2 . See Evil , Harm , Hurt.
Acts 7:9 17:5 1—Corinthians 13:4 James 4:2 2—Corinthians 11:2 1—Corinthians 12:31 14:1,39 Galatians 4:17,18CovetDesireEnvyJealousZealous.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
(2): (n.) The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea.
(3): (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
(4): (v. t.) To assign; to appoint.
(5): (v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
(6): (v. t.) To love; to regard with affection.
(7): (v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
(8): (v. t.) To dispose or incline.
(9): (v. t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
(10): (v. t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
(11): (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
King James Dictionary [3]
Affect', L afficio, affectum, of ad and facio, to make affecto, to desire, from the same room. Affect is to make to, or upon to press upon.
1. To act upon to produce an effect or change upon as, cold affects the body loss affects our interests. 2. To act upon, or move the passions as, affected with grief. 3. To aim at aspire to desire or entertain pretension to as, to affect imperial sway. See the etymology of Affair. 4. To tend to by natural affinity or disposition as, the drops of a fluid affect a spherical form. 5. To love, or regard with fondness.
Think not that wars we love and strife affect.
This sense is closely allied to the third.
6. To make a show of to attempt to imitate, in a manner not natural to study the appearance of what is not natural, or real as, to affect to be grave affected friendship.
It seems to have been used formerly for convict or attaint, as in Ayliffe's Parergon but this sense is not now in use.
