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 line is attributive to ‘men.’ pestered ... pinfold, crowded together in this cramped space, the Earth.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

In fact, the distinction between noun and adjective is inapplicable to English grammar, and should be replaced by a distinction between objective and attributive words.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

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

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

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