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inflective, a.|ɪnˈflɛktɪv|
[f. inflect v. + -ive; in mod.F. inflectif.]
1. Having the quality of inflecting; tending to inflect.
1666Phil. Trans. I. 240 The Inflective veins of the Air (if I may so call those parts, which..have a greater or less Refractive power than the Air next adjoyning). 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. 13 note, Although this inflective Quality of the Air be a great Incumbrance and Confusion of Astronomical Observations.
2. Pertaining to or characterized by grammatical inflexion.
1799W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXVIII. 569 Inflective and derivative syllables. 1875Whitney Life Lang. vi. 104 The glories of a completely inflective language. 1885Clodd Myths & Dr. i. iv. 76 Their language had passed into the inflective or highest stage. |