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a. Flowing; also, wanting solidity. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Inflective. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Inflexive endings.” W. E. Jelf. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inflexible. [ R. ] “Foes inflexive.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a tendency to flow in; having influence; influential. [ R. ] Holdsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By influxion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lixivius, fr. lix ashes, lye ashes, lye: cf. F. lixiviel. ] 1. Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of the color of lye; resembling lye. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having the qualities of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lixivial salts (Old Chem.), salts which are obtained by passing water through ashes, or by pouring it on them. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lixiviated p. pr. & vb. n. Lixiviating ] To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. lixiviation. ] Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance from one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Lixivial. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ From Lixivium. ] 1. Of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Impregnated with salts from wood ashes. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. lixivium, lixivia. See Lixivial. ] A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to luxury; voluptuous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being perplexing; tendency to perplex. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. [ Cf. F. réflexif. ] Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Implying censure. [ Obs. ] “What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word?” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sex- + L. valens, p. pr. See Valence. ] (hem.) Hexavalent. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]