Meaning of ablatitious | Babel Free

Definitions

Subtractive or tending to diminish.

Late, Modern, obsolete

Examples

“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 Resolvends […]”

“Now the former of these Causes, the Eccentricity of the Orbit […] Remits us to the Aphelia and Perihelia for an Equation of Time, which answers to the Quantity of that Eccentricity, and is once a Year addititious, (or to be added to the true, that is, the apparent Time,) and once ablatitious, (or to be taken from it.)”

“This part of M’s action is termed the ablatitious force, because it tends to diminish the gravity of P towards S; […]”

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