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To add or annex; to join. Leland.

The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. [R.] B. Jonson.

Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. [R.] Earle.

Added; additional. Parkhurst.

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective. W. Taylor (1797)

As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.

Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.

In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.

An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.

The state of being rejected or cast out. [R.] An adjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor.

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun. Gibbs. -- Ad*nom"i*nal*ly, adv.

An adjective, or attribute. [R.] Coleridge.

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is…

Before death; -- generally used adjectivelly; as, an ante- mortem statement; ante-mortem examination.

mething, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. [Obs.] Locke.