v. t. - To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
v. t. - To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
v. t. - To love; to regard with affection.
v. t. - To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
v. t. - To dispose or incline.
v. t. - To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
v. t. - To tend to by affinity or disposition.
v. t. - To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
v. t. - To assign; to appoint.
n. - Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
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.