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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverbial
adjective
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▪ Further, there are no adverbs or adverbial phrases except those of time and place.
▪ It carries more textual meaning than an adverbial occurring in the same position.
▪ Lyons suggests that this x retains a pronominal element, as well as containing an adverbial element similar to here.
▪ Parallel to the division of adjunct, we may divide sub-clauses into attributive clauses, predicative clauses and adverbial clauses.
▪ The next question is - do all these adverbial expressions function in the same way?
▪ The syntactic analysis revolves mainly around the study of adverbial and participial structures in the narrative.
▪ There are two other points in this extract, sentences 4 and 10, where adverbial clauses occur in sentence-initial position.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adverbial

Adverbial \Ad*ver"bi*al\, a. [L. adverbialis: cf. F. adverbial.] Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adverbial

1610s, "pertaining to adverbs;" earlier it meant "fond of using adverbs" (1590s), from Late Latin adverbialis, from adverbium (see adverb). Related: Adverbially (mid-15c.).

Wiktionary
adverbial

a. (context grammar English) of or relating to an adverb n. (context grammar English) an adverbial word or phrase

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WordNet
adverbial

adj. of or relating to or functioning as an adverb; "adverbial syntax"

adverbial

n. a word or group of words function as an adverb

Wikipedia
Adverbial

In grammar an adverbial ( abbreviated ) is a word (an adverb) or a group of words (an adverbial phrase or an adverbial clause) that modifies or tells us something about the sentence or the verb. (The word adverbial itself is also used as an adjective, meaning "having the same function as an adverb".) Look at the examples below:

Danny speaks fluently. (telling more about the verb) Lorna ate breakfast yesterday morning. (telling when the verb's action occurred)
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Usage examples of "adverbial".

You start with that adverb, and then you follow it with an adverbial clause, and then you follow all that with an adjective.

There are certain times when an adverb or an adverbial phrase can be used to establish the motivation.

We must caution the would-be novelist to use adverbs and adverbial clauses sparingly.

The reason for this is that a repetition of the adverbial form down a page or two quickly attracts attention to itself, and the reader will have lost the sense of imagined experience through a mannerism of style.

Count the adverbs or adverbial clauses in your first chapter and decide if you have used them sparingly.

Or are we to understand that Tolkien, by the LotR period, had dropped -o as an adverbial ending?

We cannot know whether -o is still a valid adverbial ending in LotR-style Quenya.

McMurtry has allowed few adverbial dandelions to grow on his lawn.

Why, it is just like being the past tense of the compound reflexive adverbial incandescent hypodermic irregular accusative Noun of Multitude.