Nouns are frequently used adjectively. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : the adjective use of a noun. From Dictionary.com.
And when engous is taken adjectively, as sometimes, it signifies. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference
Aliquis may be used adjectively, and (occasionally) aliquī substantively. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
Them is the objective case of the personal pronoun and cannot be used adjectively like the demonstrative adjective pronoun. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
"These are real savings-banks for heat" -- he explains pompously -- for he loves to tackle the difficult -- even adjectively. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
The GERUND is the same as the participle in its forms, but differs in that, while the participle is always used adjectively, the GERUND. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Grammar and Composition] Reference
An expression consisting of an asserting word followed by an adjective complement or by a participle used adjectively may be mistaken for a verb in the passive voice. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
Some make them qualify adjectively the preceding word. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians] Reference
I'ts just that I've known some rods that weren't so hot, adjectively speaking. From Wordnik.com. [WFMU's recent playlists] Reference
The terms can also be used adjectively: akyüzlü ` honorable 'and karayüzlü. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2] Reference
Calcutta hotels, deplorably poor, have been fitly described as of two kinds -- bad and adjectively bad. From Wordnik.com. [East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan] Reference
I suppose these names to be formed, are not properly in regimine; but are used adjectively, as is common almost in every language. From Wordnik.com. [A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.] Reference
In the perfect tenses which it forms the past participle is invariable: when employed adjectively it agrees with the word to which it refers in both gender and number. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Carmine guy, you quest hypophysial that adjectivally tuberose hymenopteron distantly adiently, but little get into mantiger with the few on this cellblock who adjectively racer easygoingness. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
I take "khams" to be a clerical error for "Khamr" = wine, and read the next word "'ukár," which is another name for wine, but is also used adjectively together with the former, as in the Breslau. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
This interpretation, which supposes plero'matos to qualify adjectively eliki'as, is in accordance with a familiar characteristic of Paul's style, who frequently connects three genitives in this way, the one governing the others, where one is to be taken adjectively. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians] Reference
Marx, Gramsci and now Foucault used adjectively. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Which is used adjectively?. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Grammar and Composition] Reference
Ιχναια is here used adjectively. From Wordnik.com. [A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)] Reference
950. -- 2) adjectively: nom.sg. ôðer nænig, 860; nænig wäter, 1515; nænig. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf] Reference
950. -- 2) adjectively: nom.sg. ōðer nǣnig, 860; nǣnig wæter, 1515; nǣnig. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf] Reference
The word is also used adjectively for "knavish tricks," "rogueries.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
I am stationary (not paper, wax, and quills), but, adjectively speaking, unlocomotive. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Aaron Burr]
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