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

This last word should be reserved to designate more particularly the phenomena of objective or attributive conjugation common to idioms of the second form.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

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.

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From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

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)