a. [a. Fr. affectif, -ive, ad. med.L. affectīvus; f. affect- ppl. stem of affic-ĕre: see AFFECT v.2 and -IVE.]

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  † 1.  Earnest, zealous. Obs. rare.

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1549.  Compl. Scotl., 148. Throucht ane affectyue loue that there prince hes touart them.

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  † 2.  Affectionate, loving. Obs. rare.

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1656.  Bp. Hall, Breathings of Devout Soul (1851), 158. Cast me off with scorn, for casting any affective glances upon so base a rival.

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  † 3.  Existing in feeling or disposition, as distinguished from external manifestation. Obs. rare.

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1633.  T. Adams, Exp. 2 Pet. ii. 1 (1865), 223. This world God loved, affective before all time, effective in time.

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  † 4.  Of affectation; artificially assumed. Obs. rare.

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1641.  Brathwait, Eng. Gent., 4. That which is most native and least affective deserves choisest acceptance.

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  † 5.  Having the quality of affecting; tending to affect or influence; influential, operative. Obs.

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1656.  Trapp, Exp. Matt. vii. 20 (1868), 132/1. Knowledge, not apprehensive only, but affective too.

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1678.  Lively Oracles, viii. § 42, 318. Other manner of impressions, more affective and more lasting then bare reading will leave.

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  † 6.  Having the quality of influencing the emotions; affecting. Obs.

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1654.  Whitlock, Manners of Eng., 525 (T.). By affective meditations to view, as re-acted, the tragedy of this day [Good Friday].

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1715.  Burnet, Hist. own Times, 695. He was a judicious preacher, more instructive than affective.

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  7.  Of or pertaining to the affections or emotions; emotional.

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1623.  Bp. Hall, Serm., Wks. V. 138. This monosyllable [heart] … comprises all that intellective and affective world, which concerneth man;… when God says, The heart is deceitful, he means the Understanding, Will, Affections are deceitful.

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1659.  Hardy, Serm., xlii. (1865), 266/2. Pride … as well in the intellectual as in the affective faculty.

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1865.  Lecky, Rationalism (1878), I. 391. Act upon and develope the affective or emotional side of human nature.

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1876.  Maudsley, Physiol. Mind, i. 36. The affective functions of the brain … are the foundations of the emotions, and impulses.

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