afficere

(sich affizieren) comes from the Latin afficere: “to affect,” “to act upon,” “to excite.”

Patriot Acts: The Political Language of Henrich von Kleist 2006

“Non est Deo difficile facere ut sapidus humor sit intra organum gustus, qui sensum illum intentionaliter afficere.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Note 164: Joseph Shatzmiller, Recherches sur la communauté juive de Manosque (Paris, 1973), 133 — 34: "volentes ipsum infantem in dicto puteo demergere et aquam ipsius putey indeturpare et veneno afficere ita quod ex ipsa aqua deturpata et venenosa gustantes seu potantes ex ea nequarentur et morirentur." back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Proptere� qu騞 indidit Deus Opt.Max. hominibus pr� cunctis alijs viuentibus; cor et desiderium tale, vt appetat quisque cum alijs societatem inire, amare, et vicissim amari, beneficijs afficere, et mutua accipere beneficia studeat, ide� cuique pro facultate sua hoc desiderium in omnibus quidem hominibus beneficijs fouere et conseruare conuenit, in illis autem maxim�, qui hoc desiderio adducti, � remotis etiam regionibus ad eos veniunt.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Ad hunc modum discernunt nostri utriusque potestatis officia, et jubent utramque honore afficere et agnoscere, utramque Dei donum et beneficium esse.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Quod Magistratus, sub Novo Testamento, bona conscientia homines facinorosos capitali supplicio afficere non possit.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Quod Magistratus, sub Novo Testamento, bona conscientia homines facinorosos capitali supplicio afficere non possit.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Proptereà quòd indidit Deus Opt.Max. hominibus præ cunctis alijs viuentibus; cor et desiderium tale, vt appetat quisque cum alijs societatem inire, amare, et vicissim amari, beneficijs afficere, et mutua accipere beneficia studeat, ideò cuique pro facultate sua hoc desiderium in omnibus quidem hominibus beneficijs fouere et conseruare conuenit, in illis autem maximè, qui hoc desiderio adducti, à remotis etiam regionibus ad eos veniunt.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584

However, where Collier takes the turn towards gnosis (i.e. knowledge), I am more inclined to tend towards the affective - to view the binding-together as a dispositional afficere, or 'acting-on' in compassionate connection.

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Graviori poena afficere ju - bet Longohardorum Rex Rotharistn Cod.

Nicolai Myleri ab Ehrenbach Metrologia. Hoc est, de jure statuendi de mensuris, ponderibus & moletrinis. Ubi in specie quoque. De lapide terminali & torculis, tam privatis quam publicis ac bannalibus, singularia quaedam & non vulgaria exhibentur & variae quaestiones explicantur. Tractatus practicus. In quo quicquid vulgari aut exotica lingua traditum, in linguam latinam transversum est Myler von Ehrenbach, Johann Nikolaus, 1610-1677 1683