noun
dēflexus
Meaning
- a bending, turning aside
dēflexus, ūs, m. deflecto,
I. a bending, turning aside (post-class.), in the trop. sense:
humani animi ab odio ad gratiam deflexus, Val. Max. 4, 2; cf. id. 7, 3: a virtute, Ambros. in Psa. 1, § 23.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
dēflexus
P. of deflecto.