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Webster 1913 Edition


Sublative

Sub′la-tive

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Adj.
Having power, or tending, to take away.
[R.]
Harris.

Definition 2024


sublative

sublative

English

Noun

sublative (uncountable)

  1. A case of verbs in Finno-Ugric languages used to express the destination of movement, originally onto the surface of something (e.g. climb onto a tree), and, by extension, in other figurative meanings as well (e.g. to university).

Adjective

sublative (comparative more sublative, superlative most sublative)

  1. Having power, or tending, to take away.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Harris to this entry?)