misaffect

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ affect.

Verb

misaffect (third-person singular simple present misaffects, present participle misaffecting, simple past and past participle misaffected)

1. (obsolete) To dislike. [16th–17th c.]
2. (obsolete) To affect in a negative way. [17th c.]
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 171:

     forasmuch as this malady is caused by precedent imagination, […] the brain must needs be primarily misaffected, as the seat of reason […]