INFLECT', v.t. [L. 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.
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