Definition of reflexive

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Reflexive (a.) Implying censure.

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Reflexive :: Reflexive (a.) Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep..
Enroll :: Enroll (n.) To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist..
Repose :: Repose (v.) To lay at rest; to cause to be calm or quiet; to compose; to rest, -- often reflexive; as, to repose one's self on a couch..
Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill..
Unbosom :: Unbosom (v. t.) To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self..
Wend :: Wend (v. t.) To direct; to betake; -- used chiefly in the phrase to wend one's way. Also used reflexively.
Perjure :: Perjure (v. t.) To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself..
Get :: Get (v. t.) To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.
Readdress :: Readdress (v. t.) To address a second time; -- often used reflexively.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.
Wont :: Wont (v. t.) To accustom; -- used reflexively.
Demean :: Demean (v. t.) To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Bethink :: Bethink (v. t.) To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought..
Myself :: Myself (pron.) I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself..
Reciprocal :: Reciprocal (a.) Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action..
Range :: Range (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc..
Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
Yourself :: Yourself (pron.) An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, you have injured yourself..
Reflective :: Reflective (a.) Reflexive; reciprocal.
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