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From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison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

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

As the dualism of extension and thought is reduced from a substantial to an attributive distinction, so individual bodies and minds, motions and thoughts, are degraded a stage further.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard