affined joined by affinity, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, i. 3. 25;
“Whether I in any just term am affined To love the Moor”
OTHELLO, i. 1. 39
(
“Do I stand within any such terms of propinquity or relation
to the Moor, as that it is my duty to love him?”
JOHNSON)
;
“If partially affined, or leagued in office”
OTHELLO, ii. 3. 210.
(Here affined
“means ‘related by nearness of office,’”
STEEVENS)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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