REFLEXIVE

a. adv.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

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

2.
a.

Implying censure. [Obs.] "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word" South.

3.
a.

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. -- Re*flex"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flex"ive*ness, n.

4.
adv.

In a reflex manner; reflectively.

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