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ablative n. 夺格(的) 夺格(的) 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 1: the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb [ synonym: { ablative}, { ablative case}] Ablative \ Ab" la* tive\, 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]
Ablative \ Ab" la* tive\, ( 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] |
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