INFLECT

inflect. Inflect, v.t. to bend, crook, turn, vary, decline

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In‐flect″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflecting.] [[L. inflectere, inflexum; pref. in- in + flectere to bend. See Flexible, and cf. Inflex.]] 1. 1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.
Are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle ? Sir I. Newton. 2. 2. (Gram.) 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. 3. To modulate, as the voice.