[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ablative \ab"lative\, a. f. ablatif, ablative, l. ablativus
   fr. ablatus. see ablation.
   1. taking away or removing. obs.
      1913 webster

            where the heart is forestalled with misopinion,
            ablative directions are found needful to unteach
            error, ere we can learn truth.        --bp. hall.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
ablation 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ablative \ab"lative\, gram.
   the ablative case.
   1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
ablative absolute 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ablative
     adj 1: 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
see also:
ablative case 

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