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ablatitious

ablatitious adjective: subtractive or tending to diminish.

Adjective

ablatitious (comparative more ablatitious, superlative most ablatitious)

  1. (Late, Modern, obsolete) Subtractive or tending to diminish.
    • the ablatitious force
    • The whole Operation of the said Example you have in the next page, where you may observe, that for the more certain and easie placing, as well of the Numbers, which constitute the several Divisors, as of those which constitute the Ablatitious Numbers to be subtracted from the several and respective...1676, Thomas Binning, A Light to the Art of Gunnery […], pages 86–7

Forms of ablatitious

comparativemore ablatitious
superlativemost ablatitious

Questions about ablatitious

What does ablatitious mean?
Ablatitious means subtractive or tending to diminish.
What part of speech is ablatitious?
Ablatitious is an adjective.

Words near ablatitious in the dictionary

  1. ablation studies
  2. ablation study
  3. ablational
  4. ablationally
  5. ablations
  6. ablatitious
  7. ablatival
  8. ablative
  9. ablative absolute
  10. ablative absolutes
  11. ablative case

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