misaffect

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ affect.

Verb

misaffect (third-person singular simple present misaffects, present participle misaffecting, simple past and past participle misaffected)

  1. (obsolete) To dislike.
  2. (obsolete) To affect in a negative way.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior , The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.171:
      forasmuch as this malady is caused by precedent imagination, the brain must needs be primarily misaffected, as the seat of reason