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Ablative

adjective
1.
Relating to the ablative case.
2.
Tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature.



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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
... ablative, when the ablative was absolutely necessary, aroused once more the hilarity of the audience, and proved that Sister Claire's devil was just as poor a Latin scholar as the superior's, and Barre, fearing some new linguistic eccentricity on the part of the evil spirit, adjourned ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere


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