- Impact - Impress - Power to affect - tamper - A flowing in or upon; influx. - Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect,
phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly
exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on
animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the
influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs. - Power or authority arising from elevated station,
excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation;
acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.