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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Ablative

· Ab·la·tive · IPA /ˈæb.lə.tɪv/
01 a. Taking away or removing.
  1. 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. 2.
    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.(Gram.)
02 The ablative case.
  1. 1.
    The ablative case.(Gram.)
Phrases & compounds
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.