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Definition of Ablative
Ab´la`tive | a. | 1. | Taking away or removing. | | 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. | | 1. | (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. |
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