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Ablative

Ăb'la-tīve, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. ablativus, Fr. ablatif, It. & Sp. ablativo, Pr. ablatiu. See ABLATION.] 1. Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are first necessary to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Hall. 2. (Gram.) Applied to the sixth case of nouns in the Latin language, in which case are used words when the actions of carrying away or taking from are signified.

Ăb'lă-tīve, n.

noun

n. (Gram.) The sixth case of Latin nouns, used to express the relations denoted in English by the words from, with, in, or by.

Ablative absolute, a peculiar construction in Latin grammar, 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 being used in a clause by themselves, independently of the rest of the sentence.