Definition for IN-FLECT'

IN-FLECT', v.t. [L. inflecto; in and flecto, to bend.]

  1. To bend; to turn from a direct line or course. Are not the rays of the sun reflected, refracted and inflected by one and the same principle? – Newton.
  2. In grammar, to vary a noun or a verb its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.
  3. To modulate, as the voice.

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