adjective

adjektiivi

adjektiivinen

menettelytapaa koskeva

laatusana puhekieltä Incapable of independent function.
1899, w:John Jay Chapman|John Jay Chapman, Emerson and Other Essays, AMS Press (1969) (as http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13088 reproduced in Project Gutenberg)

In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.

The whole English law, substantive and adjective.

The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives.

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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.

In English, instead of adjectiving our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, adjectived signs from other languages(..)