ablative

1. a. Taking away or removing. Source: opted

2. a. 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: opted

3. The ablative case. Source: opted

4. adj. relating to the ablative case Source: wordnet

5. adj. tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature Source: wordnet

6. n. the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb Source: wordnet

7. 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. 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

8. Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some otherlanguages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being removal,separation, or taking away. Source: adambom

9. j:100 n. the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb a. relating to the ablative case s. tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature Source: ecdict

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