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reflect (none of the S. uses are pre-S.)
1. to throw or cast back again Wint. IV. iii. [iv.] 761 “reflect I not on thy baseness court-contempt?.”
2. to shine R3 I. iv. 31 “r-ing gems,” Tit. I. i. 226, Lucr. 376 “she reflects so bright.”
3. to bestow attention “upon” Cym. I. vi. 23.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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