From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Reflexive \Re*flex"ive\ (-?v), a.
1. [Cf. F. r['e]flexif.] Bending or turned backward;
reflective; having respect to something past.
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Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith.
--Hammond.
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2. Implying censure. [Obs.] "What man does not resent an ugly
reflexive word?" --South.
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3. (Gram.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which
refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said
of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I
bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class;
reciprocal; reflective.
[1913 Webster] -- Re*flex"ive*ly, adv. --
Re*flex"ive*ness, n.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
reflexive
adj 1: without volition or conscious control; "the automatic
shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a
reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive" [syn:
automatic, {reflex(a)}, reflexive]
2: referring back to itself [syn: reflexive, self-referent]
n 1: a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the
agent's action affects the agent [syn: reflexive pronoun,
reflexive]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:
reflexive
<theory> A relation R is reflexive if, for all x, x R x.
Equivalence relations, pre-orders, partial orders and
total orders are all reflexive.
(1999-01-28)