In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
INFLECTED
inflected
(adjective) showing alteration in form (especially by the addition of affixes); ââboysâ and âswamâ are inflected English wordsâ; âGerman is an inflected languageâ
inflected
(adjective) (of the voice) altered in tone or pitch; âhis southern Yorkshire voice was less inflected and singing than her northern oneâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
inflected (comparative more inflected, superlative most inflected)
Deviating from a straight line.
(grammar) Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word).
(linguistics) Having inflected word forms; fusional.
(botany) bent or curved inward or downward
Verb
inflected
simple past tense and past participle of inflect
Anagrams
• deflectin
Source: Wiktionary
In*flect"ed, a.
1. Bent; turned; deflected.
2. (Gram.)
Definition: Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective. Inflected cycloid (Geom.), a prolate cycloid. See Cycloid.
INFLECT
In*flect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflecting.] Etym: [L. inflectere, inflexum; pref. in.- in + flectere to bend. See Flexibl, and cf. Inflex.]
1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow. Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle Sir I. Newton.
2. (Gram.)
Definition: To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.
3. To modulate, as the voice.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PRESCRIPTIVE
(adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules; âprescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usageâ
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