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Definition of Adjectival

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective. "An adjective clause"

Definition of Adjectival

1. a. Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

Definition of Adjectival

1. Adjective. (grammar) Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective; "adjectival syntax"; "an adjective clause" adjectival. Dictionary.com. WordNet® 3.0. Princeton University. . ¹

2. Adjective. (legal) Of or relating to procedure, especially to technicalities thereof. ¹

3. Noun. An adjectival phrase or clause. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adjectival

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adjectival

Literary usage of Adjectival

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

1. A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry: 150 B.C.-pre-fifth/sixth by V. S. Rajam (1992)
"The negative adjectival participle does not refer to a specific time. The context determines what time is meant by the negative adjectival participle. ..."

2. The philology of the English tongue by John Earle (1880)
"adjectival PRONOUNS. 480. This section will run parallel to the former, as each group of Pronouns has its substantives and its adjectives ..."

3. Principles of English Etymology by Walter William Skeat (1892)
"adjectival, ADVERBIAL, AND VERBAL SUFFIXES. § 242. ... -less, ME -lea, AS -lias; this, the commonest of all adjectival suffixes, can be added to almost ..."

4. A Grammar of the Greek Language: Chiefly from the German of Raphael Kühner by William Edward Jelf (1842)
"The adjectival sentence is the resolution of an adjective or participle, ... is, generally speaking, not resolved into an adjectival sentence such t,- ôî ..."

5. First Spanish Course by Elijah Clarence Hills, Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1917)
"Subjunctive in adjectival Clauses — The subjunctive is used in adjectival ... 1 A clause that modifies a noun or pronoun is called an adjectival clause. ..."

6. Live Language Lessons by Howard Roscoe Driggs (1917)
"190 adjectival PHRASES AND CLAUSES REVIEW Phrases and clauses used to modify substantives are called adjectival phrases and clauses. The adjectival phrase ..."

7. A Treatise on English Punctuation: With an Appendix, Containing Rules on the by John Wilson (1899)
"adjectival, participial, and absolute phrases are each separated by a comma from the ... The first three examples show the punctuation of adjectival and ..."

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