Meanings
adjectiveinflexive (comparative more inflexive, superlative most inflexive)
comparative more inflexive · superlative most inflexive
- especiallygrammarinflective; inflectional
inflexive endings
1842, William Edward Jelf, A Grammar of the Greek Language - obsoleterareinflexible (in character)
And to bear safe the burthen undergone Of foes inflexive, and inhumane hates
1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC
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