A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Reflex, adj. [Cf. 17th c. Eng. reflex adj. derived from, or consisting in, the conversion of the mind or thought upon itself, also Reflex n., also fig. = image, reproduction.] Only comb. with -man or -selfe, applied to the image of oneself or another apprehended in ‘second sight’. —1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1964) 222.
They call this reflex-man a coimjmeadh or co-walker, every way like the man, as a twin-brother and companion, haunting him as his shadow Ib. 328.
If the being transported to live in another countrey did obscure the second sight, nather the parson nor the maid neided be much troubled for her reflexselfe
