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† ˈflexive, a. Obs. [f. L. flex- ppl. stem of flectĕre to bend + -ive.] Tending to bend, flexible.
1629Davenant Albovine iii. Dram. Wks. 1872 I. 55 Be flexive in your smiles. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal xiv. 303 To cast his flexive body through a hoope. 1791W. Bartram Trav. 329 These heavy spikes of flowers..bend the slender flexive stems to the ground. Hence ˈflexively adv.
1651Fuller's Abel Rediv., Myconius 141 His heart was alwayes flexively inclind To what was good. |