1. Assume
away or removing. "Where the
heart is forestalled with misopinion,
ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can teach truth." (Bp. Hall)
2. Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some another languages, the
fundamental importance of the
case being removal, separation, or assume away.
See: ablation.
Origin: F. Ablatif, ablative, L. Ablativus fr. Ablatus.
Source: Websters Vocabulary