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Effected

Effect \Ef*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Effected; p. pr. & vb. n. Effecting.]

  1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.

    So great a body such exploits to effect.
    --Daniel.

  2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish.

    To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed.
    --Bp. Hurd.

    They sailed away without effecting their purpose.
    --Jowett (Th. ).

    Syn: To accomplish; fulfill; achieve; complete; execute; perform; attain. See Accomplish.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
effected

"brought about," past participle adjective from effect (v.). Since early 15c. sometimes used erroneously for affected.

Wiktionary
effected

vb. (en-past of: effect)

WordNet
effected

adj. settled securely and unconditionally; "that smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact" [syn: accomplished, established]

Usage examples of "effected".

Blessed Virgin effected anything in baptism, but as intimating that her intercession may help the person baptized to preserve the baptismal grace, then the sacrament is not rendered void.

In some States ratification was effected only after a bitter struggle in the State convention itself.

In each, transmission is effected by means of energy manifestations produced at the point of reception in one State which are generated and controlled at the sending point in another.

California to a privilege tax measured by gross premiums derived from such contracts, notwithstanding that the contracts reinsured other insurers authorized to do business in California and protected policies effected in California on the lives of residents therein.

State laws regulating direct primaries were amended so as to enable voters participating in primaries to designate their preference for one of several party candidates for a senatorial seat: and nominations unofficially effected thereby were transmitted to the legislature.

The second purification effected in her by the Holy Ghost was by means of the conception of Christ which was the operation of the Holy Ghost.

He bestows such a grace on one and not on another, yet there seems to be a certain fittingness in both of these being sanctified in the womb, by their foreshadowing the sanctification which was to be effected through Christ.

The blessed Virgin, who was chosen by God to be His Mother, received a fuller grace of sanctification than John the Baptist and Jeremias, who were chosen to foreshadow in a special way the sanctification effected by Christ.

But a true marriage is not effected by the betrothal, but by the wedding.

Secondly, this was becoming to the restoration of human nature which was to be effected by Christ.

The third also requires a succession of time: both because there is no increase without local movement, and because increase is effected by the power of the soul already informing the body, the operation of which power is subject to time.

Therefore the animation of Christ could not be effected in the first instant of His conception.

But since we hold that the conception was effected instantaneously, it follows that in that flesh the beginning and the completion of its conception were in the same instant.

But the effect of that baptism was from man, because it effected nothing that man could not accomplish.

For this reason the baptism of John was named after him, because it effected nothing that he did not accomplish.