inflex

English

Etymology

Compare flex, inflect.

Verb

inflex (third-person singular simple present inflexes, present participle inflexing, simple past and past participle inflexed)

1. To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
   • 1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 69:

     a brazen tube Inflex'd

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inflex”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)