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

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

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 Bell, William

Verbs that not only are relational but have descriptive power, such as sings, plays, runs, etc., are called attributive verbs.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.

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.