Reflexive /(-?v)/

Re·flex·ive

Reflexive

a.
  1. Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.
    Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith.
  2. Implying censure. [Obs.]
  3. 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. (Gram.)