Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
ADJECTIVE
adjective, procedural
(adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law; “adjective law”
adjectival, adjective
(adjective) of or relating to or functioning as an adjective; “adjectival syntax”; “an adjective clause”
adjective
(noun) the word class that qualifies nouns
adjective
(noun) a word that expresses an attribute of something
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
adjective (plural adjectives)
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
Synonyms
• See adjective
Hyponyms
• attributive adjective
• cardinal adjective
• descriptive adjective
• demonstrative adjective
• indefinite adjective
• interrogative adjective
• limiting adjective
• numerical adjective
• ordinal adjective
• participial adjective
• possessive adjective
• predicative adjective
• proper adjective
• quasi-adjective
• relative adjective
• substantive adjective
Adjective
adjective (not comparable)
(obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
Synonyms: dependent, derivative
(grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
Synonym: adjectival
(legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
Synonym: procedural
Antonym: substantive
(chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
Antonym: substantive
Verb
adjective (third-person singular simple present adjectives, present participle adjectiving, simple past and past participle adjectived)
(transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
(transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.
Source: Wiktionary
Ad"jec*tive, a. Etym: [See Adjective, n.]
1. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word 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." Macaulay.
Ad"jec*tive, n. Etym: [L. adjectivum (sc. nomen), neut. of adjectivus that is added, fr. adjicere: cf. F. adjectif. See Adject.]
1. (Gram.)
Definition: 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. Fuller.
Ad"jec*tive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjectived; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjectiving.]
Definition: 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. Tooke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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Coffee Trivia
