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Affected
Pronunciation : Af*fect"ed
Part of Speech : p. p. & a.
Definition : 1. Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. Chapman.
2. Inclined; disposed; attached. How stand you affected his wish Shak.
3. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak.
4. Assumed artificially; not natural. Affected coldness and indifference. Addison.
5. (Alg.)
Defn: Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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