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Am 9 Nov 2000 03:48:00 GMT schrieb jDenver:
>In git.general Ze Ninguem <solomon@angband.org> wrote:
>: Effect _is_ a verb.
>
>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}.

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