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Aetiological

Pertaining to aetiology; assigning a cause.

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Aetiology 74% connected

The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Aetiology 74% connected

The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of…

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Aetiology 66% connected

The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of…

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Etiological 92% connected

Pertaining to, or inquiring into, causes; aetiological.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Advocate noun · 78% connection

One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselo…

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Aitiology noun · 78% connection

See Aetiology.

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Appeal verb · 78% connection

To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of…

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Appropriation noun · 78% connection

The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; applicati…

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Argue verb · 78% connection

To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.

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Ascribe verb · 78% connection

To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to asc…

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Ascription noun · 78% connection

assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the p…

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Assignation noun · 78% connection

The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.

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Attract verb · 78% connection

To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomp…

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Attribution noun · 78% connection

assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the p…

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Attributive adjective · 78% connection

Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.

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Bayes' theorem noun · 78% connection

(statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be comput…

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Blow verb · 78% connection

To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet;…

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Causal adjective · 78% connection

Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.

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Causality noun · 78% connection

The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.

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Consideration noun · 78% connection

The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; c…

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Distributive adjective · 78% connection

Assigning the species of a general term.

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Effect noun · 78% connection

In general: That which is produced by an agent or cause; the event which follows immediately from an antecedent, called the cause; res…

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