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

The interposition of the heterogeneous attributive between ἁγίοις and πιστοῖς is harsh and improbable—not to say, with Hofmann, “quite incredible.”

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

This line is attributive to ‘men.’ pestered ... pinfold, crowded together in this cramped space, the Earth.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

It is, therefore, from the point of an attributive equality that we are enabled to say: They are two.

From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various

But if the prefixed noun ends in e, this e is changed to a in the attributive of the compound; e.g., t�umasaqi 'the tip of the nail,' canacugui 'iron nails.'

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.