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Difference between reflection and reflexion - English Language . . . The same word, two spellings Oxford English Dictionary The spelling reflection is now much commoner than reflexion in all uses, probably largely as a result of association with reflect v ; compare also flexion n , connection n , etc N E D (1905 ) notes that the spelling reflexion was then ‘still common in scientific use, perhaps through its connexion with reflex’
How did stone-cold come to mean completely? UPDATE (11 15 2016): 'Stone-' as a generic marker for 'completely' Alan Carmack's very useful comment (below) about the long-established terms "stone blind" and "stone still" (to which we might add "stone dead," which Richard Hooker uses in A Learned Discourse on Justification [1612]) led me to look into when stone in the sense of "completely" might have arisen outside the context of "stone cold "