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

As an Adjective the Participle may be used either as an attributive or predicate modifier of a Substantive.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

Constructions of Adjectives.+—Adjectives that merely describe or limit are said to be attributive in construction.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

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

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

"The will dotes that is attributive To what infectiously itself affects."

From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)