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Ablative
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What's The Definition Of Ablative?
[n] the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
[adj] tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature; "ablative material on a rocket cone" [adj] (linguistics) relating to the ablative case Synonyms | Synonyms for Ablative: ablative case | subtractive Related Terms | Find terms related to Ablative: See Also | oblique | oblique case Ablative In Webster's Dictionary \Ab"la*tive\, a. [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. (Gram.) 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.
\Ab"la*tive\, (Gram.) 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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