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   Effect , n. [L. effectus, fr. efficere, effectum, to effect; ex + facere to make: cf. F. effet, formerly also spelled effect. See Fact.]
   Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
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   That no compunctious visitings of nature
   Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
   The effect and it.
   Shak.
   
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   Manifestation; expression; sign.
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   All the large effects
   That troop with majesty.
   Shak.
   
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   In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; result; consequence; outcome; fruit; as, the effect of luxury.
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   The effect is the unfailing index of the amount of the cause.
   Whewell.
   
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   Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
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   Patchwork . . . introduced for oratorical effect.
   J. C. Shairp.
   
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   The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
   W. Irving.
   
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   Power to produce results; efficiency; force; importance; account; as, to speak with effect.
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   Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; -- with to.
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   They spake to her to that effect.
   2 Chron. xxxiv. 22.
   
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   The purport; the sum and substance. “The effect of his intent.”  
   Chaucer.
   Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
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   No other in effect than what it seems.
   Denham.
   
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   pl. Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects.
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   For effect, for an exaggerated impression or excitement. -- In effect, in fact; in substance. See 8, above. -- Of no effect, Of none effect, To no effect, or Without effect, destitute of results, validity, force, and the like; vain; fruitless.  “Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition.” Mark vii. 13. “All my study be to no effect.” Shak. -- To give effect to, to make valid; to carry out in practice; to push to its results. -- To take effect, to become operative, to accomplish aims.
   Shak.
   Syn. -- Effect, Consequence, Result.  These words indicate things which arise out of some antecedent, or follow as a consequent. Effect, which may be regarded as the generic term, denotes that which springs directly from something which can properly be termed a cause. A consequence is more remote, not being strictly caused, nor yet a mere sequence, but following out of and following indirectly, or in the train of events, something on which it truly depends.  A result is still more remote and variable, like the rebound of an elastic body which falls in very different directions. We may foresee the effects of a measure, may conjecture its consequences, but can rarely discover its final results.
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   Resolving all events, with their effects
   And manifold results, into the will
   And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
   Cowper.
   
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   Shun the bitter consequence, for know,
   The day thou eatest thereof, . . . thou shalt die.
   Milton.
   
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   Effect , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Effected; p. pr. & vb. n. Effecting.]
   To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.
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   So great a body such exploits to effect.
   Daniel.
   
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   To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.
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   To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed.
   Bp. Hurd.
   
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   They sailed away without effecting their purpose.
   Jowett (Th. ).
   Syn. -- To accomplish; fulfill; achieve; complete; execute; perform; attain. See Accomplish.
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