Definitions for: 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



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: ablative case, subtractive

See Also: oblique, oblique case

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