a. [f. L. adjectīv-us: see ADJECTIVE + -AL 1. (A modern formation to provide a more distinctly adjective or adjectival form to the word ADJECTIVE, this having become commonly a sb.)] Of or belonging to the adjective.
1797. W. Taylor, in Month. Rev., XXIV. 558. All the regular inflexions which bestow on it [a noun] a privative, an adjectival, or a verbal form.
1858. Marsh, Eng. Lang., vi. 135. Our adjectival ending in -ble.
