interested

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IN'TERESTED, participle passive Made a sharer; as one interested in the funds. 1. Affected; moved; having the passions excited; as one interested by a story. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected; as an interested witness.
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