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† eˈffection Obs.
[ad. L. effectiōn-em, f. efficĕre: see effect n.]
1. a. Fabrication, formation, production.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xvii, An ymage..All of brent golde by false effection. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. 290 Attributing the Effection of the Soul unto the Great God. Ibid. iv. vii. 350 The primitive Effection of the Humane Nature.
b. Accomplishment, performance.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 53 To invent..their own way for the cognition, acquisition, or effection of any thing. 1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 151 The incarnation..belongs unto all the three Persons effectivè, in regard of effection.
†2. Geom. A construction; a proposition; a problem or praxis drawn from some general proposition. (Todd.) Obs.
1706in Phillips. 1796Hutton Math. Dict. 1818in Todd; and in mod. Dicts.
¶ Confused with affection and infection.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxiii. (1495) 131 A swete voyce..chaungith the effeccion of the herers. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. ii. iii. (Arb.) 115 Of such force is education & natural effection. 1544Phaër Regim. Lyfe (1560) N ij, Beware of..fennes, for oftentymes the effection of the aire, ariseth of the corrupte vapoures. |