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Ablative

Ablative (ablative)
a.((?))
Ab"la*tive
[F. ablatif, ablative, L. ablativus fr. ablatus. See Ablation.]
  1. Taking away or removing.
    [Obs.]

    Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth.
    Bp. Hall.

  2. Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away.

Ablative

Ablative (ablative)
, (Gram.) )
Ab"la*tive
  1. The ablative case.

    ablative absolute, a construction in Latin, in which a noun in the ablative case has a participle (either expressed or implied), agreeing with it in gender, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, Pythagoras venit, i. e., Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came.













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