Definition of "effected" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of effect. (verb)

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• "She took the new circumstances in with a single cast up of her wary eyelids; and her, and her skill in surgery and art in medicine, I praised to lull her fears, which procured me the denomination of old friend, as well as handsome gentleman: she went so far as to add, in a fit of natural warmth, nice fellow; and it is the truth, that this term effected wonders in flattering me: it seemed to reveal to me how simple it was for Harry Richmond, one whom gipsies could think a nice fellow, to be the lord of Janet's affections -- to be her husband."
• "The calling of the name effected a temporary pathway through those intangible barriers."
• "The call effected, the first operator continued to revolve the machine so that the balls of pith should diverge in the two electrometers."