Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.