Pronounced: rih-FEKT, verb
Notes: This just looks like a misspelling of “reflect” to me
Yesterday’s word
The word mackle, as a noun, means “a blured mark in printing as from a double stroke or impression”. As a verb, it means “to make or print a blurred mark (as from a double impression in printing)”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
I’ve certainly run across a mackle in printed material; I expect you have as well. Our word had earlier variants: macle and makle, which came from the even earlier word macule, but these have all meant the same thing. The original word macule came from the Latin word macula (spot; blemish).
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