reflective

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REFLECT'IVE, adjective 1. Throwing back images; as a reflective mirror. In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms impair'd - 2. Considering the operation of the mind, or things past; as reflective reason.
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