Adjective | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Ăd'jec-tive, n.

noun

n. [Lat. adjectivum (sc. nomen), from adjectivus, that is added.] (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 the phrase, a wise ruler, wise is the adjective, expressing a particular property of ruler.

Adjective color, one which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency. Ure.

Ad'jec-tive, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. [Rare.]

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. Tooke.

Ad-jūnct'ive, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. adjunctivus.] Joining; having the quality of joining.