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
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
The interposition of the heterogeneous attributive between ἁγίοις and πιστοῖς is harsh and improbable—not to say, with Hofmann, “quite incredible.”
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
The particle ga may be used to make any expression whatever attributive.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Williamson, Robert Wood
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)
