affectioned

comparative more affectioned · superlative most affectioned

1. archaicFeeling a certain affection (for); disposed.

   I am, your affectioned freind and servant, Subscribitur, Pet. Wedderburn.

   1663 October 20, P. Hume Brown, editor, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland (3rd), volume 1, Edinburgh: H.M. General Register House, published 1908, page 452

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   But some man wil saye againe, that is more affectioned to Philosophie, than eyther to the lawe of Moses eyther to Christian fayth:[…].

   1563, John Man, transl., Common places of Christian Religion, gathered by Wolfgangus Musculus, for the use of suche as desire the knowledge of Godly truthe, translated out of Latine into Englishe, London, folio 117v

   Besides the gratitude which every American owes [France], as our sole ally during the war of independence, I am additionally affectioned by the friendships I contracted there by the good dispositions I witnessed, and by the courtesies I received.

   1818 December 13, “Letter from Thomas Jefferson to M. de Neuville”, in Thomas Jefferson Randolph, editor, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, volume 4, Charlottesville: F. Carr, published 1829, letter 146, pages 311–312

   Kindly affectioned and unselfish to the bitter end, did the dying saurian once again lift up his crocodilly voice, now faint and tinny with the hollowness of dissolution, and cry, “Avaunt, good Saracen, avaunt! Bide further afield, lest peradventure, in the tantrums of death, I cleave thy skull with my scaly tail. But, oh! for the love of Him that made us both, speak no more so despitefully of crocodile tears”—and he wept aloud.

   1896 July, J. Lawson, “The Kindly Crocodile”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume CCLXXXI, number 1987, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 58

2. archaicAffected, pompous.
3. archaicObstinate, willful.
4. archaicZealous, earnest.

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of affection