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Adjective   /ˈædʒɪktɪv/   Listen
noun
Adjective  n.  
1.
(Gram.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.
2.
A dependent; an accessory.


verb
Adjective  v. t.  (past & past part. adjectived; pres. part. adjectiving)  To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. (R.) "Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has... adjectived all three."


adjective
Adjective  adj.  
1.
Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.
2.
Not standing by itself; dependent.
Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.
3.
Relating to procedure. "The whole English law, substantive and adjective."





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... "Oboro" is an adjective meaning calm, and little glaring, and is specially attributed to the moon in spring. The line is from ...
— Japanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical - Poetry and Drama of Japan • Various
... right name for this head of the gentry of Mansoul as Paul was to get the right name for sin in the seventh of the Romans. In that profoundest and intensest of all his profound and intense passages, the apostle has occasion to seek about for some expression, some epithet, some adjective, as we say, to apply to sin so as to help him to bring out to his Roman readers something of the malignity, deadliness, and unspeakable evil of sin as he had sin living and working in himself. But all the resources of the Greek ...
— Bunyan Characters - Third Series - The Holy War • Alexander Whyte
... Mencke, remarking the adjective for the first time, and looking somewhat annoyed. ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... itself. In the universe, therefore, the only principle which is indifferentiable is this "I am that I am" and the manifold modes of manifestation can only exist in reference to it. The eternal ignorance consists in this, that as there is but one substantive, but numberless adjectives, each adjective is capable of designating the All. Viewed in time the most permanent object or mood of the great knower at any moment represents the knower, and in a sense binds it with limitations. In fact, time itself is one of these infinite moods, and so is space. The only progress in Nature ...
— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various
... were divided by geographical conditions into two primary groups: those of the West India Islands, and those of the Continent. The common use of the latter term, in the thought and speech of the day, is indicated by the comprehensive adjective "Continental," familiarly applied to the Congress, troops, currency, and other attributes of sovereignty, assumed by the revolted colonies after their declaration of independence. Each group had special commercial characteristics—in itself, and ...
— Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 - Volume 1 • Alfred Thayer Mahan


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