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ATTRIBUTIVES

Volume 3 · 55 words · 1815 Edition

in Grammar, are words which are significant of attributes; and thus include adjectives; verbs, and particles, which are attributes of substances; and adverbs, which denote the attributes only of attributes. Mr Harris, who has introduced this distribution of words, denominates the former attributives of the first order, and the latter attributives of the second order.