Ablative \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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Ablative \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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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