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
In such an interpretation nearly all the attributive features of these witnesses are ignored.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild
Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
In the substantive verb there are two classes, of which only one is also common to attributive verbs.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton
As the dualism of extension and thought is reduced from a substantial to an attributive distinction, so individual bodies and minds, motions and thoughts, are degraded a stage further.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
