(grammar) A syntactic construction which uses the past participle, inflected in the ablative case, without an auxiliary verb yet not as an adjective, but silently supposing a verb to depend upon.

Alternative spelling of nonablative

plural of ablative case

plural of ablative absolute

plural of partitive ablative

(grammar, uncountable) the ablative case which represents the whole or set of which the head of a partitive phrase is a portion or subset / (grammar, countable) a use or instance of such an ablative case

plural of loose ablative

plural of ablative absolute

(idiomatic) To be unable to say a single word because of someone else's talkativeness.

Used to indicate that the number of some specified thing is very small.