Noah Webster
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.