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Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection. Max Müller.

A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. Hickok.

Want of reflection.

Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.

The state of being negligent; negligence. [Obs.] Shak.

Failure of election.

Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection.

A collection previously made. [R.]

A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality. Burke.

Election beforehand.

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. "The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale.

within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection.

Election a second time, or anew; as, the reëlection of a former chief.

The return of rays, beams, sound, or the like, from a surface. See Angle of reflection, below. The eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things. Shak.

That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. (Biol.) See under Natural.

The reflection of a reflected image or sound. [R.] Bacon.

A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.…

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton.

To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much. [R.] Walker.

A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.