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Inflect


INFLECT', verb transitive [Latin 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?

2. In grammar, to vary a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.

3. To modulate, as the voice.