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Sublative

Sublative \Sub"la*tive\, a. Having power, or tending, to take away. [R.]
--Harris.

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sublative

a. Having power, or tending, to take away. n. A case of verbs in Finno-Ugric languages used to express the destination of movement, originally to the surface of something (e.g. ''climb a tree''), and, by extension, in other figurative meanings as well (e.g. ''to university'').

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