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▪ I. † affectate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. affectāt-us assumed, affected, feigned, pa. pple. of affectā-re to aim at: see affect v.1]
a. Of a thing: Assumed unnaturally, forced, strained, stilted.
b. Of a person: Assuming artificial airs; = affected I. 4, 6.
1559Elyot Dict., Accercitum dictum, an oracion to much affectate or as we saie to farre fet. 1578N. T. (Genev.) 1 Cor. Argt., Puffed vp with vaine glory, and affectate eloquence. 1606Holland Suetonius 18 Affectate forced phrases and curious ynkehorne termes. 1635J. Hayward Banish'd Virg. 170, I like not the being an affectate follower of the common stile.
▪ II. † affectate, v. Obs.
[f. affectate a., or L. affectāt- ppl. stem of affectā-re: see prec.]
A more Latinized by-form of affect v.1
1560J. Daus Steidane's Comm. 134 b, He..maye not affectate rule and gouernment, and playe the tyraunt. 1582G. Martin Discov. in Fulke's Def. (1843) 202 You affectate to thrust the word ‘image’ into the text, when there is no such thing in the Hebrew or Greek. 1588Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. iv. 27 The like absurditie would it bee..to affectate such woordes as were quite worne out at heeles and elbowes long before the nativitie of Geffrey Chawcer. 1595Lodge Def. Stage Plays (1853) 9 What made Austin so much affectate that heavenly fury? |