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EFFECT', n. [L. effectus, from efficio; ex and facio, to make.]

1. That which is produced by an agent or cause; as the effect of luxury; the effect of intemperance.

Poverty, disease and disgrace are the natural effects of dissipation.

2. Consequence; event.

To say that a composition is imperfect,is in effect to say the author is a man.

3. Purpose; general intent.

They spoke to her to that effect. 2 Chron.34.

4. Consequence intended; utility; profit; advantage.

Christ is become of no effect to you. Gal.5.

5. Force; validity. The obligation is void and of no effect.

6. Completion; perfection.

Not so worthily to be brought to heroical effect by fortune or necessity.

7. Reality; not mere appearance; fact.

No other in effect than what it seems.

8. In the plural, effects are goods; movables; personal estate. The people escaped from the town with their effects.

EFFECT', v.t. [from the Noun.] To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. The revolution in France effected a great change of property.

1. To bring to pass; to achieve; to accomplish; as, to effect an object or purpose.



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EFFECT', n. [L. effectus, from efficio; ex and facio, to make.]

1. That which is produced by an agent or cause; as the effect of luxury; the effect of intemperance.

Poverty, disease and disgrace are the natural effects of dissipation.

2. Consequence; event.

To say that a composition is imperfect,is in effect to say the author is a man.

3. Purpose; general intent.

They spoke to her to that effect. 2 Chron.34.

4. Consequence intended; utility; profit; advantage.

Christ is become of no effect to you. Gal.5.

5. Force; validity. The obligation is void and of no effect.

6. Completion; perfection.

Not so worthily to be brought to heroical effect by fortune or necessity.

7. Reality; not mere appearance; fact.

No other in effect than what it seems.

8. In the plural, effects are goods; movables; personal estate. The people escaped from the town with their effects.

EFFECT', v.t. [from the Noun.] To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. The revolution in France effected a great change of property.

1. To bring to pass; to achieve; to accomplish; as, to effect an object or purpose.

EF-FECT', n. [L. effectus, from efficio; ex and facio, to make; It. effetto; Fr. effet.]

  1. That which is produced by an agent or cause; as, the effect of luxury; the effect of intemperance. Poverty, disease and disgrace are the natural effects of dissipation.
  2. Consequence; event. To say that a composition is imperfect, is in effect to say the author is a man. Anon.
  3. Purpose; general intent. They spoke to her to that effect. 2 Chron. xxxiv.
  4. Consequence intended; utility; profit; advantage. Christ is become of no effect to you. Gal. v.
  5. Force; validity. The obligation is void and of no effect.
  6. Completion; perfection. Not so worthily to be brought to heroical effect by fortune or necessity. Sidney.
  7. Reality; not mere appearance; fact. No other In effect than what It seems. Denham.
  8. In the plural, effects are goods; movables; personal estate. The people escaped from the town with their effects.

EF-FECT', v.t. [from the Noun.]

  1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. The revolution in France effected a great change of property.
  2. To bring to pass; to achieve; to accomplish; as, to effect an object or purpose.

Ef*fect"
  1. Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

    That no compunctious visitings of nature
    Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
    The effect and it.
    Shak.

  2. To produce, as a cause or agent] to cause to be.

    So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel.

  3. Manifestation; expression; sign.

    All the large effects
    That troop with majesty.
    Shak.

  4. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.

    To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd.

    They sailed away without effecting their purpose. Jowett (Th. ).

    Syn. -- To accomplish; fulfill; achieve; complete; execute; perform; attain. See Accomplish.

  5. In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.

    The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause. Whewell.

  6. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.

    Patchwork . . . introduced for oratorical effect. J. C. Shairp.

    The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place. W. Irving.

  7. Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
  8. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to.

    They spake to her to that effect. 2 Chron. xxxiv. 22.

  9. The purport; the sum and substance.

    "The effect of his intent." Chaucer.
  10. Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.

    No other in effect than what it seems. Denham.

  11. Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.

    For effect, for an exaggerated impression or excitement. -- In effect, in fact; in substance. See 8, above. -- Of no effect, Of none effect, To no effect, or Without effect, destitute of results, validity, force, and the like; vain; fruitless. "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition." Mark vii. 13. "All my study be to no effect." Shak. -- To give effect to, to make valid; to carry out in practice; to push to its results. -- To take effect, to become operative, to accomplish aims. Shak.

    Syn. -- Effect, Consequence, Result. These words indicate things which arise out of some antecedent, or follow as a consequent. Effect, which may be regarded as the generic term, denotes that which springs directly from something which can properly be termed a cause. A consequence is more remote, not being strictly caused, nor yet a mere sequence, but following out of and following indirectly, or in the train of events, something on which it truly depends. A result is still more remote and variable, like the rebound of an elastic body which falls in very different directions. We may foresee the effects of a measure, may conjecture its consequences, but can rarely discover its final results.

    Resolving all events, with their effects
    And manifold results, into the will
    And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
    Cowper.

    Shun the bitter consequence, for know,
    The day thou eatest thereof, . . . thou shalt die.
    Milton.

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Effect

EFFECT', noun [Latin effectus, from efficio; ex and facio, to make.]

1. That which is produced by an agent or cause; as the effect of luxury; the effect of intemperance.

Poverty, disease and disgrace are the natural effects of dissipation.

2. Consequence; event.

To say that a composition is imperfect, is in effect to say the author is a man.

3. Purpose; general intent.

They spoke to her to that effect 2 Chronicles 34:22.

4. Consequence intended; utility; profit; advantage.

Christ is become of no effect to you. Galatians 5:4.

5. Force; validity. The obligation is void and of no effect

6. Completion; perfection.

Not so worthily to be brought to heroical effect by fortune or necessity.

7. Reality; not mere appearance; fact.

No other in effect than what it seems.

8. In the plural, effects are goods; movables; personal estate. The people escaped from the town with their effects.

EFFECT', verb transitive [from the Noun.] To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. The revolution in France effected a great change of property.

1. To bring to pass; to achieve; to accomplish; as, to effect an object or purpose.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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