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Meanings of attributive in English

Catalan
prenominal

Of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify.

Related terms
prenominal
Russian
атрибутив

Grammatical feature.

атрибутив
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Usage of attributive in English
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The word 'attributive' in logic embraces both the adjective and participle of grammar.
Deductive Logic
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The attributive is defined, so far as it can be, through the corresponding abstract term.
Deductive Logic
3
An attributive is not directly the name of anything.
Deductive Logic
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When an attributive appears to be used as a subject, it is owing to a grammatical ellipse.
Deductive Logic
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River broad again - tending W.S.W., with a broad flattened island with attributive sandbanks in the middle.
Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
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The subject-term, 'man,' and its corresponding attributive, 'human,' have both extension and intension, distinct from one another.
Deductive Logic
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For definition is of things through names, and an attributive out of predication is not the name of anything.
Deductive Logic
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Now, we cannot intelligibly predicate an attributive of the abstract quality, or qualities, the possession of which it implies.
Deductive Logic
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Whether an attributive is abstract or concrete, depends on the nature of the subject of which it is asserted or denied.
Deductive Logic
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A gentle pressure of the hand was the only recognition, yet the young lawyer cherished hopes that were solely attributive to himself.
Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life
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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.'
Deductive Logic
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They cease to be logical attributives the moment they are so used.
Deductive Logic
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Definition is confined to subject-terms, and does not properly extend to attributives.
Deductive Logic
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The distinction between relative and absolute applies to attributives as well as subject-terms.
Deductive Logic
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Logic, however, also recognises as attributives terms which signify the non-possession of attributes.
Deductive Logic
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Common terms, other than attributives, ought always to admit of definition.
Deductive Logic
Translations for attributive
Catalan
prenominal
Attributive through the time