No more to chiefs and ladies bright The harp of Tara swells principal The chord alone coordinate begun that breaks at night attributive relative subordinate Its tale of ruin tells coordinate concluded.
Now, this apposition of two nouns, which still serves the purpose of the genitive in many languages, might be regarded as attributive or as predicative.
But, owing perhaps to his polytheistic associations and the attributive nature of his name, the person of Prajapati seems to have been thought but insufficiently adapted to represent this abstract idea.
This last word should be reserved to designate more particularly the phenomena of objective or attributive conjugation common to idioms of the second form.
Like other Participles it may be used either as Attributiveor Predicate.
As an Adjective the Participle may be used either as an attributive or predicate modifier of a Substantive.
Subject-Term Attributive according to the kind of thing signified.
Every privative attributive has, or may have, a corresponding abstract term, and the same is the case with negatives: for the absence of an attribute, is itself an attribute.
An attributive is not directly the name of anything.
Now, we cannot intelligibly predicate an attributive of the abstract quality, or qualities, the possession of which it implies.
When we say 'Socrates was a man,' we convey to the mind the idea of the same attributes which are implied by the attributive 'human.
The attributive is defined, so far as it can be, through the corresponding abstract term.
When an attributiveappears to be used as a subject, it is owing to a grammatical ellipse.
An Attributive then may be defined as a term which signifies the possession, or non-possession, of an attribute by a subject.
Whether an attributive is abstract or concrete, depends on the nature of the subject of which it is asserted or denied.
For definition is of things through names, and an attributive out of predication is not the name of anything.
Adjectives can be verbified and then appear in the shape of attributive verbs: haúki, pl.
The majority of the adjectives and of the attributive verbs derived from them form derivatives, which in some instances may be called distributive, in others frequentative and iterative forms.
Gradation of adjectives and of attributive verbs formed from these can be effected in different ways, which are more perfect and expressive here than in those Indian languages which can express gradation only by syntactic means.
Even the attributive judgment, as above noted, is no mere assertion of identity.
Even the attributive judgment is found on examination to be of this nature.
Its problems are formulated exclusively in terms of theattributive judgment; the other forms of relational judgment are ignored.
In the first place, Kant states his problem in reference only to the attributive judgment.
This is evidently in direct contrast with the Seri word, in which the attributive form is initially and terminally different from the form of the word employed as the name for “blood”.
The Yuman word apparently has no distinctively adjective or attributive form.
This parent stem seems to be the attributive hami, “tall, long”, of the Mohave vocabulary.
In fact, the distinction between noun and adjective is inapplicable to English grammar, and should be replaced by a distinction between objective and attributive words.
An Attributive is a word that connotes an attribute or property, as hot, valorous, and is always grammatically an adjective.
Some refer it to justice of the attributive kind, because offences are punished more or less, in proportion to their consequences, and because the punishment is inflicted by the whole community, as it were, upon an individual.
Pick out the attributiveand the predicate adjectives in the following: Do you think Latin is hard?
An +attributive adjective+ is closely attached to its noun and regularly precedes it.
This arises from two reasons; the first is that it is perfectly impossible for one African woman to do the work of the house, prepare the food, fetch water, cultivate the plantations, and look after the children attributive to one man.
Gacon, and their attributive crowd of mission children all in a state of frenzy.
Collado here demonstrates the absorbitive capacity of Latin as he creates an accusative singular adjective from the past attributive of the verb kobu.
But if the prefixed noun ends in e, this e is changed to a in the attributive of the compound; e.
The Vocabulario has sãnuru and sannuru as the ombin form of the attributive perfective sarinuru.
Milton inserts the adverbial clause in the predicate, which is not unusual; he then adds an attributive clause, which is not usual in English, though common in Greek and Latin.
In this line and the next the attributive clauses are separated from the antecedent: see note, l.
An adjective or participle, either attributive or predicate, sometimes takes the number and gender of the persons or things implied in the substantive: as, (a.
The signs used in the conjugation proper of the attributive verb, do not appear elsewhere in the tongue, and must have descended from an older period of its existence.
In the present condition of the language the suffixes are used only with the substantive verb; in the attributive verb, however, they may have been driven forward by the governed pronouns suffixed.
In the substantive verb there are two classes, of which only one is also common to attributive verbs.
In the former case, we have a real attributive verb, in the latter a substantive verb, in which an attribute is considered as at rest, hence as an adjective.
In such an interpretation nearly all the attributive features of these witnesses are ignored.
We will notice the attributive features of these witnesses as they are related by John in this chapter—that is, Rev.
Various uses of the noun as an adjective, that is, in some qualifying or attributive sense are when the noun conveys the sense of: 1.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attributive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
