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adjective

Reflexive adj.

Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. "Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith."

Implying censure. (Obs.) "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word?"

(Gram.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective.

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Etymology of 'Reflexive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reflexive" Quotes from Famous Books

... self-consciousness. Citizenship, bodily health, all forms of appreciation and knowledge, were identified in the parts they played here. In short the Christian consciousness, although renunciation was its deepest motive, was reflexive and centripetal to a degree hitherto unknown among the European peoples. And when with St. Augustine theoretical interests once more vigorously asserted themselves, this new emphasis was in the ...

— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry

... A vestirse, y fuera pereza: Dress yourself, and out upon your loitering. The reflexive third person se, in phrases of command, like a levantarse and a vestirse, has become stereotyped, so it remains the same for all persons, singular ...

— Ms vale maa que fuerza • Manuel Tamayo y Baus

... affection for the under-nourished zealot, but he did owe him a life. Mikah had saved him after the crash, only to be murdered himself by this local assassin. Jason made a mental note to kill the man just as soon as he was physically up to it, at the same time he was a little astonished at his reflexive acceptance of the need for this blood-thirsty atonement of a life for a life. Apparently his long stay on Pyrrus had trodden down his normal dislike for killing except in self-defense and from what he had seen so far of this world the Pyrran training would certainly be most useful. ...

— The Ethical Engineer • Henry Maxwell Dempsey

... should tell a cleric, scrupulous in this point, that his fear is groundless and that by the very act of taking up his Breviary he expresses his intention of praying, of saying his Hours; that it is not necessary that such intention be actual or reflexive, it is sufficient if it be virtual, and that such an intention does exist every time one opens the Breviary to say his Hours. The saying slowly and deliberately the prayer "Aperi Domine" is a great aid to the scrupulous in forming a right intention and ...

— The Divine Office • Rev. E. J. Quigley

... a reflexive, frequentative form from notza, to think, to reflect, itself from the primitive radicle no, mind, common to both the Nahuatl and Maya languages. The syllable yol is for yollotl, heart, in its figurative ...

— Ancient Nahuatl Poetry - Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. • Daniel G. Brinton