REFLECT

reflect. Reflect, v. to think, consider, reproach, cast back

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Re‐flect″ (r?‐fl?kt″), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Reflecting.] [[L. reflectere, reflexum; pref. re- re- + flectere to bend or turn. See Flexible, and cf. Reflex, v.]] 1. 1. To bend back; to give a backwa�d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat.
Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our quotations. Fuller. Bodies close together reflect their own color. Dryden. 2. 2. To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.
Nature is the glass reflecting God, As by the sea reflected is the sun. Young.