Definition of Attributives

1. Noun. (plural of attributive) ¹

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Definition of Attributives

1. attributive [n] - See also: attributive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Attributives

attributes
attributing
attribution
attribution theory
attributional
attributional complexity
attributions
attributive
attributive adjective
attributive adjectives
attributive genitive
attributive noun
attributive nouns
attributively
attributiveness
attributives (current term)
attrist
attristed
attrists
attrit
attrite
attrited
attritee
attritees
attriteness
attriter
attriters
attrites
attriting
attrition

Literary usage of Attributives

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of James Harris, Esq. by James Harris (1841)
"CHAPTER XL CONCERNING attributives OF THE SECOND ORDER. As the attributives hitherto mentioned denote the attributes of substances, so there is an inferior ..."

2. Hermes by James Harris (1825)
"Concerning attributives of the second Order. the attributives hitherto mentioned denote the Attributes of Substances, so there is an inferior class of them, ..."

3. Hermes; Or, A Philosophical Inqviry Concerning Vniversal Grammar by James Harris (1806)
"Concerning attributives of the second Order. ^j^; As the attributives hitherto ... in these instances the attributives eloquent, and wrote, are immediately ..."

4. A Grammar of the Idiom of the New Testament by Georg Benedikt Winer, Gottlieb Lünemann, Edward Masson, Joseph Henry Thayer (1877)
"They blend, as it were, with the substantive. 2 It is obvious that this applies only to adjectives used as attributives to substantives, ^n Luke xxiii. ..."

5. Grammar of the Greek Language, for the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner, Bela Bates Edwards (1844)
"attributives. [§ 262. ularly the case in the phrase, ovx oíd' ay ti. PI. ... attributives. attributives serve to explain more definitely the idea contained ..."

6. A Grammar of the Persian Language by William Jones (1828)
"OF PERSIAN ADJECTIVES OR attributives, i^J\L?. 87. ... But, when these attributives are to be construed as substantives, which is often the case, ..."

7. Grammar of the Sindhi Language: Compared with the Sanskrit-Prakrit and the by Ernest Trumpp (1872)
"Formation of appellatives and attributives. 7) Themes in 6. This affix corresponds to the Sansk. affix ^T«fi (final ^1 being commonly elided in Sindhi), ..."

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