reflexed, ppl. a.
(rɪˈflɛkst)
[f. reflex v.]
1. Of light, etc.: Reflected, thrown back; due to, or caused by, reflection.
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 299 Þe þridde siȝt is reflexid whan it comeþ bi dyvers meenes, and þei ben on divers kyndis, as þe moone is seen aȝens niȝt. 1595 J. King Queens Day Serm. in Jonas (1618) 690 Our loue to other..comming as broken and reflexed beames from our loue to God. 1615 Jackson Creed iv. iii. viii. §5 Any reflexed splendour from the favourable aspect of earthly majesty. 1662 Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 134 This glass..will render the reflexed species of the outward object full and large. |
† 2. Directed backwards.
Cf. reflex a. 3.
Obs.| 1656 in Clarendon Hist. Reb. xv. §113 When we take a reflexed [1704 reflex] view of our past actions. 1659 Gentl. Calling (1696) 102 Cheating has usually a reflexed efficacy, and deceives none more than those that use it. a 1676 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. (1677) 20 By considering the reflexed acts of our Understanding, whereby we know many acts of our own minds and Soul. |
† 3. = reflex a. 4.
Obs. rare—1.
| 1667 Decay Chr. Piety v. ¶11 This secondary and reflext apologie for Christs law. |
4. Turned, bent, or folded back.
Cf. reflex v. 1.
| 1733 Miller Gard. Dict. (ed. 2) s.v. Cassia, Barbadoes Cassia, with a reflex'd Cup, and pointed leaves. 1818 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxi. (ed. 2) II. 238 The reflexed head simulating a tail curled over its back. 1854 Hooker Himal. Jrnls. II. xx. 77 Inflated reflexed bracts, that conceal the flowers. 1882 Garden 7 Oct. 312/2 A very handsome and full reflexed flower. |
| Comb. 1777 Lightfoot Flora Scot. II. 755 Reflex'd-leav'd Hypnum. |
b. (See
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| 1836 Rafinesque Amer. Nations I. ii. 66 The Resupinate or Reflexed Group [of American languages]: where the roots or nouns substantive are reversed, following the adjectives or epithetes, which are prefixed. |