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ffects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist. Cause is substance exerting its power into act, to make one thing begin to be. Locke.

Having a cause. [Obs.]

Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.

The state of being causeless.

One who or that which causes.

Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.

A kind of sofa for two person. A tête-a-tête.

l level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.

By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. Milton.

A joint cause. Fotherby.

Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.

facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

To cause alienation of (mind). Sandys.

A cause of pollution or wickedness.

A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.

on; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about. To bring about, to cause to take place; to accomplish. -- To come about, to occur; to take place. See under Come. -- To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. "Shall we set about some revels Shak. -- Round about, in every d…

A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt departure." Shak.