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ADNOUN

Volume 1 · 58 words · 1778 Edition

is used by some grammarians to express what we more usually call an Adjective. The word is formed by way of analogy, to adverb; in regard adjectives have much the same office and relation to nouns, that adverbs have to verbs. Bishop Wilkins uses the word adname in another sense, viz. for what we otherwise call a preposition.