ablativelyadv.

1653 R. Lloyd Lat. Gram. 36 The Dative is construed with any part of Speech, being either put acquisitively with reference to the end or obiect,..or else Ablatively with reference to some cause, part, or specifical circumstance, having the signs from, through, in, with, by.

1764 A. Purver New & Literal Transl. Bks. Old & New Test. II. 289/2 Ver. 11..In his Anger..Ablatively, according as it stands in the Heb. and as the Sense demands: for it must be he himself that did tear, not his anger.

1827 W. S. Cardell Philos. Gram. Eng. Lang. vi. 137 The interposed adjective, when the relation is specific, refers directly to the object before it, and incidentally, datively, or ablatively, to the following one.

1987 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 106 658 The preposition is employed ablatively to express ‘vindication from our enemies’.

2004 K. G. Walker Archaic Eretria ii. 41 Knoepfler..prefers to see both as by-names of Artemis, reading the dative forms as ‘for’ rather than ablatively as ‘by’ Phylake and Metaxy.

1966 U.S. Patent 3,235,183 1 It was found that ablatively cooled rocket nozzles made with conventional nozzle geometry would undergo radical change in throat diameter as the firing progressed.

1997 Flight Internat. (Nexis) 8 Oct. The low-cost combustion chamber is built from a carbon/epoxy-overwrapped silica-phenolic liner which ablatively cools the chamber.

2006 Fuel & Energy Abstr. 197/2 Soot deposits on window surfaces were removed ablatively using a coaxial, high-energy, pulsed Nd:YAG laser beam.