"Affect" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
To act upon; Influence; change; enlarge or abridge. This word is ofteu used in the sense of acting injuriously upon per-sons and things. Ryan v. Carter, 93 U. S. 84, 23 L. Ed. 807; Tyler v. wells, 2 Mo. App. 538; Holland v. Dickerson, 41 Iowa, 373; United States v. ortega, 11 wheat. 467, 6 L. Ed. 521
To tend to by affinity or disposition.
To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to
assume; as, to affect ignorance.
Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
To dispose or incline.
To love; to regard with affection.
To assign; to appoint.
To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to
touch.
To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to
choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf and the glisten of wet pebbles, and the special significance of curves and angles. A great deal of the writing was unwritten. Plot three dots on a graph and join them; you now have a curve with certain characteristics. Extend that curve while maintaining the characteristics, and it has meaning, up where no dots were plotted.In just this way I learned to extend the curve of a grass-blade and of a protruding root, of the bent edges of wetness on a drying headstone. I quit smoking so I could sharpen my sense of smell, because the scent of earth after a rain has a clarifying effect on graveyard reading, as if the page were made whiter and the ink darker. I began to listen to the wind, and to the voices of birds and small animals, insects and people; because to the educated ear, every sound is filtered through the story written on graves, and becomes a part of it.("The Graveyard Reader")
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