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CIDE DICTIONARY
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ablative

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

ab=la=tive

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun ablative has 1 sense

ablative(n = noun.communication) ablative case - the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb; Array

is a kind of oblique, oblique case

Adjective ablative has 2 senses

ablative(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to the ablative case; Array

ablative(s = adj.all) Array - tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature; "ablative material on a rocket cone"

Derived form verb ablate₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

ablative, a. [F. ablatif, ablative, L. ablativus fr. ablatus. See Ablation.].

Taking away or removing. [1913 Webster]
"Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth." [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]

ablative,

The ablative case. [1913 Webster]

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.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

ablative, n. & adj. Gram.
--n. the case (esp. in Latin) of nouns and pronouns (and words in grammatical agreement with them) indicating an agent, instrument, or location.
--adj. of or in the ablative.

Idiom

ablative absolute an absolute construction in Latin with a noun and participle or adjective in the ablative case (see ABSOLUTE).

Etymology

ME f. OF ablatif -ive or L ablativus (as ABLATION)

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