Crossword clues for influenced
influenced
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Influence \In"flu*ence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Influenced ([i^]n"fl[-u]*enst); p. pr. & vb. n. Influencing ([i^]n"fl[-u]*en*s[i^]ng).] To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to affect; to move; to persuade; to induce.
These experiments succeed after the same manner in
vacuo as in the open air, and therefore are not
influenced by the weight or pressure of the atmosphere.
--Sir I.
Newton.
This standing revelation . . . is sufficient to
influence their faith and practice, if they attend.
--Attebury.
The principle which influenced their obedience has lost
its efficacy.
--Rogers.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: influence)
Usage examples of "influenced".
The magazines were, to be sure, aimed at a rather low age level, but the boundless imagination should have influenced these readers to not a mean degree.
Besides the motives of pride and interest, which might prompt the king of the Huns to continue this train of negotiation, he was influenced by the less honorable view of enriching his favorites at the expense of his enemies.
But as the debates of so tumultuous an assembly could not have been directed by the authority of reason, or influenced by the art of policy, the Persian synod was reduced, by successive operations, to forty thousand, to four thousand, to four hundred, to forty, and at last to seven Magi, the most respected for their learning and piety.
Constantine listened with patience, and spoke with modesty: and while he influenced the debates, he humbly professed that he was the minister, not the judge, of the successors of the apostles, who had been established as priests and as gods upon earth.
Sometimes, indeed, their friendship might be influenced by considerations of a less exalted kind: they viewed with partial affection the places which had been consecrated by their birth, their residence, their death, their burial, or the possession of their relics.
But after that, some of the chief persons of the state, both influenced by their friendship for Cingetorix, and alarmed at the arrival of our army, came to Caesar and began to solicit him privately about their own interests, since they could not provide for the safety of the state.
Whether they did this for the reason which they alleged to the lieutenants, or influenced by treachery, we think that we ought not to state as certain, because we have no proof.
Yet such was the unanimity of the Gauls in asserting their freedom, and recovering their ancient renown in war, that they were influenced neither by favors, nor by the recollection of private friendship.
For the Carnutes, who, though often harassed had never mentioned peace, submitted and gave hostages: and the other states, which lie in the remotest parts of Gaul, adjoining the ocean, and which are called Armoricae, influenced by the example of the Carnutes, as soon as Fabius arrived with his legions, without delay comply with his command.
It was not owing to being influenced by the fear of the enemy or their numerical strength, that he allowed himself to appear daunted in their estimation.
It is now available complete and unabridged in case someone should want something special and the Marquis de Sade, who seems to have influenced Lewis a great deal, isn't enough.
He has influenced Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Baudelaire, among many others, and the modern science fiction genre owes a great and obvious debt to his works.
It appears that this novel may have been influenced by a little-known novel by an English author, Edwin L.
Probably no other editor has influenced the science fiction field as much as John W.
The periodicity of this movement is much influenced by the degree of light to which the seedlings have been exposed during the day.