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Pronunciation : Ab"la*tive
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [F. ablatif, ablative, L. ablativus fr. ablatus. See Ablation.]
Definition : 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.)

Defn: 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.


Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Ab"la*tive
Part of Speech : (Gram.)
Definition : Defn: 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.


Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913