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Re: Effect the Election

#586
From: /tim
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:00
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> >Maybe I have a shitty dictionary ... but I don't see anywhere where
effect
> >is used or defined as a verb.  Could you give a sentence where effect is
> >properly used as a verb?  Or a definition from somewhere or something?
>
> From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
>
>   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}.

woah... I never knew webster's to be wrong before..

/tim
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From: "/tim" <gte848t@prism.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: Effect the Election
Date: 2000/11/08
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