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

‘Let there not be a superfluous or unnecessary sound until we come.’ ‘waste’ is an attributive: see note, l.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

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

"The will dotes that is attributive To what infectiously itself affects."

From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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