Reflexive \Re*flex"ive\ (-?v), a.

1. [Cf. F. r['e]flexif.]

Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.

Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. --Hammond.

2. Implying censure. [Obs.]

``What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word?'' --South.

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. -- Re*flex"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flex"ive*ness, n.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)