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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



... This construction, which answers more or less to the ablative absolute of Latin, and the genitive absolute of Greek, is common to all the Celtic languages. It is translated into English by a sentence introduced by when, while, whilst, or though, with a verb generally in the continuous ...
— A Handbook of the Cornish Language - chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature • Henry Jenner
... Spectaculo. Ablative. Invidere is constructed by the Latins in the following ways: invidere alicui aliquid, alicui alicujus rei, alicui aliqua re, alicui in aliqua re. Hess. The construction here (with the abl. of the thing, which was the object of envy) belongs to the silver age. Cf. Quint. (Inst. 9, 3, 1) who contrasts ...
— Germania and Agricola • Caius Cornelius Tacitus


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