Affinity

af-fin'T-tt, n. Relationship by marriage; close agreement; conformity; connection. (Chem.) That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between particles, and forms compounds. (Spiritualism.) A person for whom one of the opposite sex feels a pa ionate attachment. [L. ajfinitas, f ad and finis, border.] Affirm af-fgrm", v. [affirmed (-fermd'), -firming.] To confirm, establish, or ratify; to a ert positively, aver. — v. To declare positively. {Law.) To promise, before a magistrate or tribunal, to tell the truth, under pain of perjury. [L. ad and firm are, firm us, firm.] — Affirm/able, a. Capable of being, etc. — Affirm''ance, Confirmation: ratification.— Affirnfant, One who, etc. (Law.) One who affirms instead of taking oath. — Affirm a'tion, n. Act of, etc. that which is a erted ratification. (Law.) Declaration by one conscientiously unable to make oath.— Affirnfative, -tiv, a. Affirming, — opp. to negative; confirmative; ratifying.— n. A word expre ing a ent; an affirmative proposition; that side of a question which affirms or maintains, — opp. to negative. — Affirnfatively, adv. — Affirm/or,