reflectedadj.

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 299 Þe first siȝt is even siȝt, as man seeþ þing þat is bifore him; þe secounde siȝt is reflectid whan it is turned aȝen bi myrour.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. f. 97 Suche varietie of colors doth naturally arise of reflected beames and a cloude set against them.

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. bj Perspectiue, is an Art Mathematicall, which demonstrateth the maner, and properties, of all Radiations Direct, Broken, and Reflected.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 723 That Globe whose hither side With light from hence, though but reflected, shines. View more context for this quotation

1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 109 Another term for that which has been called obscure or reflected heat.

1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. x. 245 In native, and reflected blaze of bright Celestial equipage.

a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 753 A tendency in the reflected Sound to confine itself to the direction which a ray of Light regularly reflected at the echoing surface would follow.

1862 R. Mallet First Princ. Observ. Seismol. II. iii. xvi. 356 Ottajano and Somma..sustained the subordinate shock, of reflected waves from the N.E. flank of Vesuvius.

1909 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 82 497 For β-particles the number of reflected particles..decreases with the atomic weight of the reflector.

1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood ii. 37 The August night still had a faint reflected light.

1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways i. i. 3 Skeins of snow and blue geese honking north,..white bellies glowing eerily with the reflected light from town.

1996 Independent 2 Apr. 10/6 The incoming shells..use a reflected radio signal to make them explode about 30 feet above the ground.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. L ^v With looking shee blusht though none lookt vpon her but her owne reflected image.

1692 W. Molyneux Dioptrica Nova ii. 219 Let us observe the two reflected Images of a Candle.

1708 E. Arwaker in Truth in Fiction i. lxii. 85 Before the [house] Front a Brook ran gently by, Its Surface clear as the reflected Sky.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 702 A lucid mirror, in which Nature sees All her reflected features.

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. xxii. 12 That strange boat..did sway Amid reflected stars that in the waters lay.

1886 M. F. Sheldon tr. G. Flaubert Salammbô 12 The reflected torch flames quivered to the very bottom.

1935 E. Bowen House in Paris ii. xi. 223 Karen could see her eyes in the mirror, uncertainly moving from object to object in the reflected room.

2005 N.Y. Sun (Nexis) 8 Dec. 13 Often, narcissistically, the model stares at her reflected self.

1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xix. 204 If two straight lines which fall upon another straight line be parallel, their reflected lines shall be also parallel.

1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 528 As these Degrees when the reflected Line shall have run 90 Degrees in Length, will be equal to Degrees of a great Circle..therefore this reflected Line will, in our Longitude, reach to 45 Degrees of North Latitude.

1858 L. P. Hickok Rational Cosmol. ii. 204 If these reflected lines meet the perpendicular to the axis at an angle equal to a right angle, then will that curve..be a parabola.

1923 Amer. Math. Monthly 30 175 Suppose that we connect a point in the plane of a triangle, not on the circumscribed circle, with the three vertices, and reflect the three connecting lines in the bisectors of the angles; the reflected lines will also be concurrent.

1994 Math. Mag. June 189 Geometrically, P' is obtained from P by reflecting the lines AP, BP, CP in the internal angle bisectors through A, B, C respectively: The reflected lines concur in the point P'.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V xxii, in Poems (1878) 106 As though..An Alexander, or a Pompey, great By the favor of their Age; had ingrost All The Stocke of Honour from vnfortunate Posteritye; & humane Race but tooke Reflected Glory, as on them they looke.

1715 H. Mestayer & L. Theobald Perfidious Brother iv. i. 36 If these reflected Injuries aim at Me, Say, who is my Accuser?

1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. vii. 227 Sympathy is but a reflected feeling, and therefore, in ordinary cases, must be weaker than the original.

1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. June 217 On these occasions I am sure to be in good humour for a week or two after, and enjoy a reflected honey-moon.

1851 Gladstone Corr. Ch. & Relig. (1910) I. 358 Such griefs..must be sacred to me, even did they not touch me sharply with a reflected sorrow.

1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. ii. 30 The prayer that prevails is a reflected promise. Our office in prayer is but to receive in our hearts the bright rays of His word.

1906 H. James in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 554 And there is nothing, the city through, that doesn't receive a mild side light of a reflected interest from its neighborhood.

1947 Greece & Rome 16 9 Part of that enrichment comes through historical events, part of it through the reflected influence of other works of art.

1989 Prediction May (Insert) x3 Some astrologers have described the Moon as representing a kind of reflected self.