Part 28

<i>Evelyn.</i>

<h1>Ablastemic</h1> <Xpage=4>

<hw>Ab`las*tem"ic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ priv. + <?/ growth.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Non-germinal.</def>

<h1>Ablation</h1> <Xpage=4>

<hw>Ab*la"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>ablatio</ets>, fr. <ets>ablatus</ets> p. p. of <ets>auferre</ets> to carry away; <ets>ab + latus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>ferre</ets> carry: cf. F. <ets>ablation</ets>. See <er>Tolerate</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A carrying or taking away; removal.</def>

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Extirpation.</def>

<i>Dunglison.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>Wearing away; superficial waste.</def>

<i>Tyndall.</i>

<h1>Ablatitious</h1> <Xpage=4>

<hw>Ab`la*ti"tious</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Diminishing; <as>as, an <ex>ablatitious</ex> force</as>.</def>

<i>Sir J. Herschel.</i>

<h1>Ablative</h1> <Xpage=4>

<hw>Ab"la*tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>ablatif</ets>, <ets>ablative</ets>, L. <ets>ablativus</ets> fr. <ets>ablatus</ets>. See <er>Ablation</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Taking away or removing.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, <b>ablative</b> directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. <i>Bp. Hall.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Gram.)</fld> <def>Applied to one of the cases of the noun in Latin and some other languages, -- the fundamental meaning of the case being <i>removal</i>, <i>separation</i>, or <i>taking away</i>.</def>

<h1>Ablative</h1> <Xpage=4>

<hw>Ab"la*tive</hw>, <fld>(Gram.</fld>) <def>The ablative case.</def>

<cs><col>ablative absolute</col>, <cd>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, <i>Tarquinio regnante<i>, Pythagoras venit, <i>i. e.<i>, Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came.</cd></cs>

<h1>Ablaut</h1> <Xpage=4>

<hw>Ab"laut</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Ger., off-sound; <ets>ab</ets> off + <ets>laut</ets> sound.]</ety> <fld>(Philol.)</fld> <def>The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; <as>as, <ex>get</ex>, <ex>gat</ex>, <ex>got</ex>; <ex>sing</ex>, <ex>song</ex>; <ex>hang</ex>, <ex>hung</ex>.</as></def>

<i>Earle.</i>

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<h1>Ablaze</h1> <Xpage=5>

<hw>A*blaze"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv. & a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>a-</ets> + <ets>blaze</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.</def>

<i>Milman.</i>

<blockquote>All <b>ablaze</b> with crimson and gold. <i>Longfellow.</i></blockquote>