effect sb. (meaning ‘result, consequence’ is freq. and colours many exx. given below; quibbles are freq.)
1.
contemplated result, purpose, end
Gent. II. vii. 73, 1H6 V. iv. 102, Oth. I. iii. 105; “to ,” to the purpose
Tit. IV. iii. 59, Lr. III. i. 52.
2.
drift, tenor AYL. IV. iii. 36, John IV. i. 38,
H5 V. ii. 72
“tenours and particular
e-s,”
Cæs. I. ii. 284
“To what
effect?,”
Ham. I. iii. 45, V. ii. 37.
3.
outward sign,
manifestation, appearance Meas. III. i.
24,
Ado II. iii. 119
“what e-s of passion
shows she?,”
H5 V. ii. 240
“the poor . . . of my
visage,”
H8 II. iv. 84, Mac. V. i. 12*, Lr. I. i. 133,
Compl. 202
“Effects of terror and
dear modesty.”
4.
something acquired by
an action (S.)
Ham. III. iii. 54
“I am still possess'd Of
those effects.”
5.
execution,
accomplishment, fulfilment, realization Gent. I. i. 50*,
Meas. II. i. 13
“attain'd the of your
own purpose,”
Mac. I. v. 48, Lr. IV. ii. 15,
Ant. V. ii. 332
“thy thoughts Touch
their effects.”
6.
practical reality,
fact Troil. V. iii. 110*.
