ABLATIVE

AB'LATIVE, adjective [Latin ablativus; Latin ablatus, from aufero, to carry away, of ab and fero.]A word applied to the sixth case of nouns in the Latin language, in which case are used words when the actions of carrying away, or taking from, are signified.Ablative absolute, is when a word in that case, is independent, in construction, of the rest of the sentence.

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ablative. Ablative, a. taking away, as the ablative case in Latin, the sixth case of nouns

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Ab″la‐tive (�), a. [[F. ablatif, ablative, L. ablativus fr. ablatus. See Ablation.]] 1. 1. Taking away or removing.
Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall. 2. 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.