attributive
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I make my bread deciding whether a word is an attributive noun or adjective, parsing adverbial uses over conjunctive uses, writing those delightfully boring usage notes in your dictionary.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
Milton inserts the adverbial clause in the predicate, which is not unusual; he then adds an attributive clause, which is not usual in English, though common in Greek and Latin.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
In the present condition of the language the suffixes are used only with the substantive verb; in the attributive verb, however, they may have been driven forward by the governed pronouns suffixed.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton
The particle ga may be used to make any expression whatever attributive.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson
To be more precise, let us consider an existential, instead of an attributive, judgment.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
