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Show AF AF At laft fuch grace I found, and means I wrought That I that lady to my fpoufe had won Accord of friends, confent of parents fought Affiance made, my happinefs begun APFUNITY, m [ [afinité, Fr. from afJinis, Lat. 1. Relation by marriage; relation con tracted by the hufband to the kindre of the wife, and by the wife to thofe o the hutband. It is oppofed to confiunguinity, or relation by birth In this fenfe it has fometimes the par Fairy Queen, b, ii 2. Truft in general ; confidence reliance fecur The duke is virtuous, mild and too well give To dream on evil, or to work my downfall,- wAh! what's more dangerous than this fon affiance Seems he a dove ? his feathers are but borrowed Shakefpeare's Henry V1 ticle aith, and fometimes z0, before th perfon towhom the relation is contraéted They had left none alive, by the blindnefs o rage killing many guiltlefs perfons, either fo 3. Truft in the divine promifes and pro"te@ion. 'To this fenfe it is now almof confined affinity to the tyrant, or enmity to the tyrant-killers Sidney, b. ii And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh kin of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter Religion receives man into a covenant of grace -where there is pardon reached out to all truly peniten finners an afliftanc promifed an difclaimin 1 Kings, iil. 1 A breach was made with France itfelf, notwithftanding fo ftrait an affinity, fo lately accomplifhed en gaged, and beftowed upon very eafy conditions iz, humility, prayer, and affiance in him Hammond's Fundamentals There can be no furer way to fuccefs, than b all confidence in outfelves, and refer as if indeed (according to that pleafant maxim o ftate) kingdoms were never married Wotton 2. Relation to The Britif Atterbury's Sermons Zo Arrr'aNcE. @. 4. [from the nou affiance. 1. To betroth; to bind any one by proTo me, fad maid, or rather widow fad He was affianced long time before And facred pledges he both gave and had Falfe, errant knight, infamous, and forefivore to her by oath, and the nuptia tween whic tim of th contra& and limit o the folemnity, his brother was wrecked, havin in that veffel the dowry of his fifter Shake[peare's Meafure for Meafure T Arr1'aNcER. a /. [from affance.] ~H that makes a contraét of marriage between two parties Dic Arripa'TION Q7 / [fro affido Lat Arripa'TuRrE. { See Arriep.] Mutua contratt ; mutual oath of fidelity. Dig Arripa'viT That the land Salike lies in Germany Between the floods of Sala and of Elve Shakefp. Henry V o Arri'rM. @. 1. To declare pofitively ; as, to afrm fac 2. To ratify or approve a former law, o Judgment : oppofed to reverfe or repeal The houfe of peers hath a power of judicatur in fome cafes, properly to examine, and then t affirm 5 or, if there be caufe, to reverfe the judgments which have been given in the court of king' bench Bacon's Adwice to Sir G. Villiers . [ [afidavit fignifies, i You faid, ifI return'd next *fize in Lent I fhould be in remitter of your grace In th' interim my letters fhould take plac Of affidavits Donne Coun Rechtere fhoul AFFi'ED affy 4 participial adj derive fro [from the ver affido, Lat ufing the phrale afidare mulieres. ed by contra@ ; affianced. Bra&o AFFILIA'TION. 2 /0 [from ad and flius Lat Adoption; the aé of taking {on Chambers n. AFFI'RMABLE. adj. [from afirm. which may be affirmed [afinage Fr. Th plicabl related t If partially affin'd, or leagw'd in office Thou doft deliver more or lefs than truth Thou art no foldier Shakefpeare's Othells an affirmable of hi when prefent ar now affirmable and applicable to him though paft Hale's Origin of Mankind AFFI'RMANCE. 7 /. [from afirm. firmation : oppofed to repeal Thi ftatut di but reftore a ancien Confta tute, which was itfelf alfo made but in affrmanc of the common law Bacon AFrFUrRMANT. 7. f. [from afirm.] Th perfon that affirms ; a declarer. Dig AFFIRMA'TION. 7. /. [affirmatio, Lat. 1. The aé of affirming or declaring : oppofed to negation or denial This gentleman vouches, upon warrant of blood att of refining metals by the cupel. Di4 AFFUNED. adj. [from affinis, Lat.] Join ed by aflinity to another another Tha Thofe attributes and conceptions that were ap Join Be we affied, and fuch affurance ta'en - As fhall with either part's agreement ftand. Shakefp A'FFINAGE In this fenfe we fay, 20 affrm the truth have made affdawi that his fervants had been afronted, and the ‘Monfieur Mefnager would have done him juftice Speftator, No 4831 «. n Yet their own authors faithfully affrm the language of the common law, A made oath.] A declaration upon oath AFFI'RM Addifony Spect. N© 201 [afprmo, Lat. T declare ; to tell confidently : oppofe to the word dexy 2. To give confidence Stranger ! whoe'er thou art, fecurely ret Affianc'd in my faith, a friendly gueft Pope's Ody[fey tongue, or Welfh, was in ufe onl thing that bears the leaft affinity 70 devotion was affance appointed; be refem reafon, as feveral brute creatures difcover fomething like reafon, though they betray not an Fairy Queen married with in this ifland, having great affinity with the ol Gallick Camden All things that have affinity with the heavens move upon the center of another, which they benefit Bacon, Effay xxiv The art of painting hath wonderful affinity wit that of poetry Dryd. Dufiefnoy, Pref Man is more diftinguithed by devotion than b mife to marriage Her thould Angelo hav connexio blance to : {poken of things ring the events of things to God with an implici affiance e affirmation his to be more virtuous and lefs at ternptable, than any of our ladjes Shakefpeare's Cymbeline 2, The pofition affirmed That he fhall receive no benefit from Chrift, i the affirmation whereon his defpair is founded ; an one way of removing this difmal apprehenfion, is to convince him, that Chrift's death, if he per form the condition required, fhall certainly belon to him Hammond's Fundamentals 3. Confirmation : oppofed to repeal Th learne in the laws of ou land obferve that our flatutes fometimes are only the affirmation, or ratification, of that which, by commo law, was held before AFFI'RMATIVE 1. Tha whic adj [from affirm. affirms oppofe Hooker to rega tive ; in which fenfe we ufe tbe affirma tive ablolutely pofition thatis the affirmativ For the affirmative, we are now to anfwer fuc proofs of theirs as have been before alleged Hooker Whether there are fuch beings or not, 'tis fufficient for my purpofe, that many have believe the affirmative Dryden 2. That which can or may be affirmed : {enfe ufed chiefly in fcience As in algebra, where affrmative quantities vanifh or ceafe, there negative ones beginj fo i mechanicks wher attra@io pulfive virtue ought to fucceed ceafes, there a tre Newt. Opt 3. Applied to perfons, be who has th habit of affirming with vehemence ; pofitive; dogmatical Be not confident and affirmative in an uncer tain matter, but report things modeftly and temperately, according to the degree of that perfuafion, which is, or ought to be, begotten by th efficacy of the authority, or the reafon, inducin thee Taylor AFFIRMATIVELY. adv. [from afirmative.] In an affirmative manner; o the pofitive fide; not negatively The reafon of man hath no fuch reftraint concluding not only affrmatively, but negatively not only affirming, there is no magnitude beyon the laft heavens, but alfo denying, there is an vacuity within them Brown's Vulgar Errours AFFI'RMER. #. [ [fro perfon that affirms affirm. Th If by the word virtue, the affrmer intends ou whole duty to God and man; and the denier, b the word virtue, means only courage, or, a moft, our duty toward our neighbour, without including, in the idea of it, the duty which we ow to God Watts's Logick Zo Arrr''x @.a [affigo, affixum, Lat. 1. T'o unite to the end, or 2 pofteriori fubjoin H ideas that has fettled in his min wit name affixed to them t determine will be abl to difcern their differences one from another Locke If men conftantly affixed applaufe and difgrac where they ought, the principle of fhame woul have a very good influence on publick conduét though on fecret villanies it lays no refiraint Rogers's Sermons 2. To conne& confequentially The doérine of irrefiftibility of grace, in work ing whatfoever it works, if it be acknowledged there is nothing to be affixt to gratitude Hammond's Fundamentals 3. Simply to faften or fix Obfolete Her modeft eyes, abafhed to behol So many gazers as on her do ftare Upon the lowly ground affixed are Spenfer AFFUX. n. [ [affixum, Lat.] A term o grammar. Something united to the en of a word In the Hebrew language, the noun has its affixa to denote the pronouns pofleflive or relative Clarke's Latin Grammar Arri'xionN. . [ [from affx. 1. The a& of affixing 2. 'The ftate of being affixed : Di# AFFLA'TION |