Definitions

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  • noun medicine Ablation; detachment.

Etymologies

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Borrowing from Latin ablatio ("carrying away")

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Examples

  • In Benedict's view, change in the Church is brought about by what the sculptor called ablatio, or removal — "the removal of what is not really part of the sculpture."

    The Year of two Popes 2006

  • In Benedict's view, change in the Church is brought about by what the sculptor called ablatio, or removal — "the removal of what is not really part of the sculpture."

    The Year of two Popes 2006

  • Propter te Deus in hominibus, Spiritus sancti distributio, mortis ablatio, resurrectionis spes.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

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