inflective, a.
(ɪnˈflɛktɪv)
[f. inflect v. + -ive; in mod.F. inflectif.]
1. Having the quality of inflecting; tending to inflect.
| 1666 Phil. Trans. I. 240 The Inflective veins of the Air (if I may so call those parts, which..have a greater or less Refractive power than the Air next adjoyning). 1713 Derham Phys.-Theol. 13 note, Although this inflective Quality of the Air be a great Incumbrance and Confusion of Astronomical Observations. |
2. Pertaining to or characterized by grammatical inflexion.
| 1799 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXVIII. 569 Inflective and derivative syllables. 1875 Whitney Life Lang. vi. 104 The glories of a completely inflective language. 1885 Clodd Myths & Dr. i. iv. 76 Their language had passed into the inflective or highest stage. |