X Affectare

1. to strive after, pursue, aim to do; to desire, aspire at
2. (with viam) to enter on or take a way, set out on, journey
3. (with spem) to cling to, cherish
4. to seize, lay hold of
5. to seek to draw, try to win over or attempt to lay hold of
6. to pretend to have, affect, feign