Ablative : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Ablative	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ablative adj relating to the ablative case 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 Synonym(s): ablative, ablative case
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ablative \Ab"lative\, 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"lative\, (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.