7. To tend to by affinity or disposition.

The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.

Newton.

8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.

Careless she is with artful care,

Affecting to seem unaffected.

Congreve.

Thou dost affect my manners.

Shak.

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