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.
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.
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