Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ablative"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ablative
adj 1: (linguistics) relating to the ablative case
2: tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very
high temperature; "ablative material on a rocket cone"
n : the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the
instrument or manner or place of the action described by
the verb [syn: {ablative case}]
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