Definition of Ablateve
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (Obsolete): Taking away or removing
Quotation
*Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth - Bp. Hall
- (Grammar): 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.
- (Grammar): The ablative case.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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