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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
attributive
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Parallel to the division of adjunct, we may divide sub-clauses into attributive clauses, predicative clauses and adverbial clauses.
▪ Third, it is noteworthy that the question appropriate to predicate qualifying position is different from that for the postnominal attributive adjectives.
▪ When a quotation is followed by an attributive phrase, the comma is placed within the quotation marks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attributive

Attributive \At*trib"u*tive\, a. [Cf. F. attributif.] Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.

Attributive

Attributive \At*trib"u*tive\, n., (Gram.) A word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
attributive

c.1600, from French attributif, from stem of Latin attributus (see attribute (v.)). As a noun, in grammar, from 1750. Related: Attributively; attributiveness.

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attributive

a. 1 (context grammar of a word or phrase English) Modifying a noun, while in the same phrase as that noun. 2 Having the nature of an attribute. n. (context grammar English) An attributive word or phrase (see above), ''contrasted with'' predicative or substantive.

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attributive

adj. of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify; "`red' is an attributive adjective in `a red apple'" [syn: prenominal] [ant: predicative]

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Attributive

In grammar, an attributive is a word or phrase within a noun phrase that modifies the head noun. It may be an:

or other part of speech, such as an attributive numeral.

Usage examples of "attributive".

Quality and Quantity, though attributive, are real entities, and on the basis of this reality distinguishable as Quality and Quantity respectively: then, on the same principle, since Motion, though an attribute has a reality prior to its attribution, it is incumbent upon us to discover the intrinsic nature of this reality.

If we are agreed that Quality and Quantity, though attributive, are real entities, and on the basis of this reality distinguishable as Quality and Quantity respectively: then, on the same principle, since Motion, though an attribute has a reality prior to its attribution, it is incumbent upon us to discover the intrinsic nature of this reality.

What, then, is that entity, called Motion, which, though attributive, has an independent reality, which makes its attribution possible--the entity corresponding to Quality, Quantity and Substance?

Dialogue heavily weighted with adverbs after the attributive verb is cluttery and annoying.

Unless we are to assume that there are several classes of adjectives, some that agree in number and others that don't and I think this is rather far-fetched it seems that Tolkien in the draft material used a system whereby an attributive adjective immediately in front of its noun does not agree in number.

Again Tolkien seems to be experimenting with a system whereby attributive adjectives immediately in front of the noun they describe do not agree in number, but appear in their uninflected form.