Part 1719

<h1>Causative</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Caus"a*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A word which expresses or suggests a cause.</def>

<h1>Causatively</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Caus"a*tive*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a causative manner.</def>

<h1>Causator</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cau*sa"tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Cause</er>.]</ety> <def>One who causes.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Cause</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cause</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>cause</ets>, fr. L. <ets>causa</ets>. Cf. <er>Cause</er>, <tt>v.</tt>, <er>Kickshaw</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.</def>

<blockquote><b>Cause</b> is substance exerting its power into act, to make one thing begin to be. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; <as>as, <ex>cause</ex> for rejoicing</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Sake; interest; advantage.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I did it not for his <b>cause</b>. <i>2 Cor. vii. 12.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general.</def>

<blockquote>What counsel give you in this weighty <b>cause</b>! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain.</def>

<blockquote>God befriend us, as our <b>cause</b> is just. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The part they take against me is from zeal to the <b>cause</b>. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Efficient cause</col>, <cd>the agent or force that produces a change or redult.</cd> -- <col>Final cause</col>, <cd>the end, design, or object, for which anything is done.</cd> -- <col>Formal cause</col>, <cd>the elements of a conception which make the conception or the thing conceived to be what it is; or the idea viewed as a formative principle and co\'94perating with the matter.</cd> -- <col>Material cause</col>, <cd>that of which anything is made.</cd> -- <col>Proximate cause</col>. <cd>See under <er>Proximate</er>.</cd> -- <col>To make common cause with</col>, <cd>to join with in purposes and aims.</cd></cs>

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Origin; source; mainspring; motive; reason; incitement; inducement; purpose; object; suit; action.</syn>

<h1>Cause</h1> <Xpage=229>

<hw>Cause</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Caused</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & v. n.</tt> <er>Causing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>causer</ets>, fr. <ets>cause</ets>, fr. L. <ets>causa</ets>. See <er>Cause</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, and cf. <er>Acouse</er>.]</ety> <def>To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by an infinitive, sometimes by <i>that</i> with a finite verb.</def>

<blockquote>I will <b>cause</b> it to rain upon the earth forty days. <i>Gen. vii. 4.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Cause</b> that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans. <i>Col. iv. 16.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To create; produce; beget; effect; occasion; originate; induce; bring about.</syn>

<h1>Cause</h1> <Xpage=229>