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

In the former case, we have a real attributive verb, in the latter a substantive verb, in which an attribute is considered as at rest, hence as an adjective.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

In such an interpretation nearly all the attributive features of these witnesses are ignored. 

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph

Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

We will notice the attributive features of these witnesses as they are related by John in this chapter—that is, Rev. xi.

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph