English

Verb

misaffect ‎(third-person singular simple present misaffects, present participle misaffecting, simple past and past participle misaffected)

1. (obsolete) To dislike. [16th-17th c.]
2. (obsolete) To affect in a negative way. [17th c.]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.171:

     forasmuch as this malady is caused by precedent imagination, […] the brain must needs be primarily misaffected, as the seat of reason […].