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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

... 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

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