uffrontive

[Eng. affront.] Involving affront, calculated to affront, offensive. "How much more afrontive is it to despise mercy ruling by the golden sceptre of pardon than by the iron rod of a penal law!"- South : Serm. on Restoration. [AFFRONTIVE.) The af-front-ive-ne , 3. quality of being fitted to affront. ( Ash. ) aff'-sět, s. [Scotch aff = off; Eng. set.] 1. The act of putting away, dismi ion. 2. An excuse, a pretence. "But words I winna langer using be, Nor will sic affsets do the turn with me." Ro : Helenore , p. 85. taff'-side, s. [Scotch aff off, and Eng. side.] The farther side of any object. a-fin'e (1), *a-fyn', adv. or a. [Fr. fin = fine.] In perfection. "Till grapes be ripe and well a-fine." Romaunt of the Rose , 3,690. "Mete and drynk they had afyn: Pyement, clare, and Reynysche wyn." Launfal , 343. *a-fin'e (2), * a-fyn' adv . [A.S. a = on; Fr. fin = the end, from Lat. finis = end.] In fine. *a-fing-ret, *a-fyng-red, a . [Old form of a - hungered , from A.S. of hungren = to hunger; hungrig = hungry.] Hungry, a-hungered. "A vox gon out of the wode go Afingret so, that him wes wo He nes nevere in none wise Afingret evour half so swithe." Of the Vox and of the Wolf (reign of Edw. 1.). ( Reliq . Antiq ., ii. 272.) †ăff-ta-kin, s . [Scotch affoff ; takin = taking.] The habit of taking off , or exposing a-fir'e, adv . [Eng. a ; fire . ] others to ridicule. (James on: Suppl .) As adjective: "I poured acid liquors to try if they contained any volatile salt or spirit, which would probably have discovered itself by making an ebullition with the affused liquor."- Boyle . af-fu-șing, pr. par. [AFFUSE.] ăf-fu-șion, s. [AFFUSE.] 1. Gen. The act of pouring upon, the state of being poured upon. "Upon the affusion of a tincture of galls it immediately became as black as ink."-Grew: Musœum. 2. Med . The pouring of water upon the body as a remedial agent in disease.