Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ill-affected; ill-disposed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Ill disposed.
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- adjective obsolete
ill-disposed
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Examples
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'Tis a common sign this; for when once the humours are stirred, and the imagination misaffected, it will vary itself in divers forms; and many such absurd symptoms will accompany, even madness itself.
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And because the spleen and blood are often misaffected in melancholy, I may not omit endive, succory, dandelion, fumitory,
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Totum hic pro vulnere corpus, body and soul is misaffected here, but the soul especially.
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Fomentations or sponges, wet in some decoctions, &c., epithemata, or those moist medicines, laid on linen, to bathe and cool several parts misaffected.
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Others assign the mesenterium or midriff distempered by heat, the womb misaffected, stopping of haemorrhoids, with many such.
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Sometimes those other parts are together misaffected; and concur to the production of this malady: a hot liver and cold stomach, or cold belly: look for instances in
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Prov., makes them hollow-eyed, pale, and lean, furrow-faced, to have dead looks, wrinkled brows, shrivelled cheeks, dry bodies, and quite perverts their temperature that are misaffected with it.
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If it be violent, or his disease inveterate, as I have determined in the precedent partitions, both imagination and reason are misaffected, first one, then the other.
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If [2622] no symptoms appear about the stomach, nor the blood be misaffected, and fear and sorrow continue, it is to be thought the brain itself is troubled, by reason of a melancholy juice bred in it, or otherwise conveyed into it, and that evil juice is from the distemperature of the part, or left after some inflammation, thus far Piso.
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Jason Pratensis gives instance in a married man, that from his wife's death abstaining, [1487] after marriage, became exceedingly melancholy, Rodericus a Fonseca in a young man so misaffected, Tom.
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