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 particle ga may be used to make any expression whatever attributive.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Williamson, Robert Wood
With the exception of the nominative, the various forms of the noun are all attributive; there is no difference, for example, between “doing a thing” and “doing badly.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
"The will dotes that is attributive To what infectiously itself affects."
From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
This line is attributive to ‘men.’ pestered ... pinfold, crowded together in this cramped space, the Earth.
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
