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Webster 1913 Edition
Inflect
In-flect′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Inflected
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Inflecting
.] 1.
To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.
Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected, refracted, and
inflected
by one and the same principle ? Sir I. Newton.
2.
(Gram.)
To vary, as 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Inflect
INFLECT'
,Verb.
T.
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.