The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ablative \Ab"la*tive\, (Gram.) The ablative case.
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] ||
Wiktionary
n. (context linguistics English) A construction in Latin in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.
WordNet
n. a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier
Usage examples of "ablative absolute".
In fact, the ablative absolute could be said to have become Mott’.
I will beat you about the head and shoulders with an unbated ablative absolute.
I have known him knock a full admiral on the head before this, with his ablative absolute.
The young gentlemen had been introduced to the first aorist, the ablative absolute, and the elements of spherical trigonometry.
He had suffered much from his own lack of education and he wished these boys to be literate creatures, to whom the difference between an ablative absolute and a prolative infinitive was as evident as that between a ship and a brig.
Or are you turning your ears because the truth stings them and you are too weak and afraid to be other than an ablative absolute, a dynasty of slaves?