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nom'inative ab'solute
Gram.
a construction consisting in English of a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun in the nominative case followed by a predicate lacking a finite verb, used as a loose modifier of the whole sentence, as
the play done in
The play done, the audience left the theater.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.