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ablative

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Adjective, Noun
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ab=la=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

ablativea. [F. ablatif, ablative, L. ablativus fr. ablatus. See Ablation.].
  •  Taking away or removing.  [1913 Webster]
    "Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth."  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
ablative,  
     The ablative case.  [1913 Webster]
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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ablative, n. & adj. Gram.
--n. the case (esp. in Latin) of nouns and pronouns (and words in grammatical agreement with them) indicating an agent, instrument, or location.
--adj. of or in the ablative.

Idiom
ablative absolute an absolute construction in Latin with a noun and participle or adjective in the ablative case (see ABSOLUTE).
Etymology
ME f. OF ablatif -ive or L ablativus (as ABLATION)

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