- Exerted influence
- Tried to persuade
- of Lobby
- Exerted an attracting influence
- Exerted attraction
- The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed;
the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external
force or by influence.
- That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation;
sensible result of an influence exerted from without.
- That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action,
or agency; appearance; phenomenon.
- Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect
hence, interest, concern.
- An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.
- Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.
- The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of
such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a
clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of
printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
- Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence
exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the
various glands are excited to action.
- Mar
- To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render
defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to
contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing;
sewer gas vitiates the air.
- To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part;
to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an
instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on
a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract.
- 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.
- Fellow feeling
- Pity
- Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the
quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings
correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.
- An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a
conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased,
or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between
them.
- Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity;
commiseration; compassion.
- The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs
or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission
of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote,
or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on
another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the
brain.
- That relation which exists between different persons by
which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that
of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often
feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become
hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering
with hysteria.