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 comprehensive phrase the "attributive Dat." expresses many indirect relations of an object to or for which an act is performed or a condition sustained.

From Greek in a Nutshell by Strong, James

In this line and the next the attributive clauses are separated from the antecedent: see note, l.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

In the present condition of the language the suffixes are used only with the substantive verb; in the attributive verb, however, they may have been driven forward by the governed pronouns suffixed.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

But if the prefixed noun ends in e, this e is changed to a in the attributive of the compound; e.g., t�umasaqi 'the tip of the nail,' canacugui 'iron nails.'

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.