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

It was a map of that region of sky-scrapers which you seem to think not justly beyond the scope of attributive sublimity.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

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)

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

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