Hypertext Webster Gateway: "reflexive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reflexive \Re*flex"ive\ (-?v), a.
1. [Cf. F. r['e]flexif.] Bending or turned backward;
reflective; having respect to something past.
Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith.
--Hammond.
2. Implying censure. [Obs.] ``What man does not resent an
ugly reflexive word?'' --South.
3. (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. -- {Re*flex"ive*ly}, adv. --
{Re*flex"ive*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
reflexive
adj 1: (physiology) without volition or conscious control; "the
automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong
light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive"
[syn: {automatic}, {reflex(a)}]
2: (grammar) referring back to itself [syn: {self-referent}]
n : a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's
action affects itself [syn: {reflexive pronoun}]
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