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Ablative   Listen
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Ablative  adj.  
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."
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.





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"Ablative" Quotes from Famous Books



... nothing of ablative, conjunctive, substantive, or grammar, no more than his lackey, or a fishwife of the Petit Pont; and yet these will give you a bellyful of talk, if you will hear them, and peradventure shall trip as little in their language as the best masters of art in France. He knows no rhetoric, ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne
... are five cases besides the nominative, or original word, and in the Greek four. Whence the original noun substantive by change of its termination suggests a secondary idea either corresponding with the genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, or ablative cases, besides the secondary ideas of number and gender above mentioned. The ideas suggested by these changes of termination, which are termed cases, are explained in the grammars of these languages, and are expressed in ours by prepositions, which are called the ...
— The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society - A Poem, with Philosophical Notes • Erasmus Darwin
... Subjunctive Active, the endings -is, -imus, -itis are now marked long. The theory of vowel length before the suffixes -gnus, -gna, -gnum, and also before j, has been discarded. In the Syntax I have recognized a special category of Ablative of Association, and have abandoned the original doctrine as to the force ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett


Words linked to "Ablative" :   ablative absolute, ablative case, ablate, oblique


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