loose ablatives

A form of loose ablative — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of loose ablative
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