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/ɪfˈɛktəd/ /ɪfˈɛktɪd/ /ˈifɛktəd/ /ˈifɛktɪd/ Listen

verb

Effect v. t. (past & past part. effected; pres. part. effecting)

To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. "So great a body such exploits to effect."

To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. "To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed." "They sailed away without effecting their purpose."

Synonyms: To accomplish; fulfill; achieve; complete; execute; perform; attain. See Accomplish.

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Etymology of 'Effected'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Effected" Quotes from Famous Books

... A compromise was effected by Somerset declaring that he would hold himself in readiness to be discovered on the landing at any ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

... worthy to live if man lives. A Churchill, a descendant of that Marlborough who fought Blenheim, came to the hall whither they had broken in, and required in the queen's name to know what they wanted. He meant to gain time; for other nobles had effected an exit at a private door for her, and were hurrying her away to a place of security, till she could escape from England. They answered Churchill, that water was monopolized; that Matthison must be minister; that they must speak to the queen face to face, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 • Various

... Edith and Richard had effected him more than he supposed it would, but the worst was over now, and as he daily grew stronger in the bracing northern air he felt more and more competent to meet ...

— Darkness and Daylight • Mary J. Holmes

... had fortunately come over at that time from St. Domingo, now interposed to repair a breach which must end in the ruin of the enterprise, and the probable destruction of those most interested in its success. By their mediation, a show of reconciliation was at length effected between the parties, on Pizarro's assurance that he would relinquish the dignity of Adelantado in favor of his rival, and petition the emperor to confirm him in the possession of it; - an assurance, it may be remarked, not easy to reconcile with his ...

— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott

... way which makes its relation to the ancient mode of expression tolerably clear. At the risk of being deemed fanciful, I venture to suggest that the bark is in effect a division of the howl into clearly separated notes, the change having come about as a similar alteration is effected in our own speech, by the increase in the intelligence which the creature is called upon to express. I conceive that while the primitive and massive emotions found satisfying utterance in the long-drawn notes, the more divided state of mind of the humanized successor has led to a ...

— Domesticated Animals - Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

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