ablative absolute
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- a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifierType of constituent, grammatical constituent
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
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.
From the entry Ablative.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54