Obs. [ad. L. effectiōn-em, f. efficĕre: see EFFECT sb.]
1. a. Fabrication, formation, production.
1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, II. xvii. An ymage … All of brent golde by false effection.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., IV. ii. 290. Attributing the Effection of the Soul unto the Great God. Ibid., IV. vii. 350. The primitive Effection of the Humane Nature.
b. Accomplishment, performance.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 53. To invent or prescribe their own way for the cognition, acquisition, or effection of any thing.
1656. Jeanes, Fuln. Christ, 151. The incarnation … belongs unto all the three Persons effectivè, in regard of effection.
† 2. Geom. A construction; a proposition; a problem or praxis drawn from some general proposition. (Todd.) Obs.
1706. in Phillips.
1796. Hutton, Math. Dict.
1818. in Todd; and in mod. Dicts.
¶ Confused with AFFECTION and INFECTION.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xxiii. (1495), 131. A swete voyce … chaungith the effeccion of the herers.
1555. Eden, Decades W. Ind., II. III. (Arb.), 115. Of such force is education & natural effection.
1544. Phaër, Regim. Lyfe (1560), N ij. Beware of … fennes, for oftentymes the effection of the aire, ariseth of the corrupte vapoures.
