attrib

Adjective

attributive (comparative more attributive, superlative most attributive)

1. Modifying another word, typically a noun, while in the same phrase.
   • In "this big house", big is attributive, whereas in "this house is big", it is predicative.

   Antonyms:

   predicative

2. Attributing; characterized by attributing; effecting attribution.
   • To hate, &c.] Or thus, To be affected with hatred and horrour at. For abhor, though arranged in our dictionaries among verbs active, attributes an affection rather than an act of the mind. As the mind however is an active principle, all verbs attributive of what passes in the mind, even those we...1806, Benjamin Dawson, Philologia Anglicana: or, a Philological and synonymical dictionary of the English language ["A-Adornment"], page 36

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