Cause: alternatives and connections

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Created; composed; begotten.

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Beginning; commencement; initiation.

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The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindi…

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

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The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

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An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

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One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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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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Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.

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Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.

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The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.

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Candidacy.

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A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed

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A lawsuit filed by one party on behalf of a group.

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Authority; jurisdiction; control.

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That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

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One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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(Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.

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The science of causes. Same as /tiology.

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One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for ot…

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A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence…

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To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills.

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One who manipulates.

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See 1st Mot.

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The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe.

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Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown.

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One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.

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Organic structure; organization.

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Same as Poor, the fish.

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In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with…

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One who produces, brings forth, or generates.

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To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to am…

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Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous.

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A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.

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Ware; aware.

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One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

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To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.

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To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

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To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

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Created; composed; begotten.

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To cut off; to separate.

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To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at.…

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Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

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To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help…

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To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.

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To call out; to summon forth.

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To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.

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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; --…

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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.

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To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.

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A flowing in or upon; influx.

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To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

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To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime.

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To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.

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A kind of loose jacket for men.

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To care; to desire.

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One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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A basket.

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To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintai…

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.

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To attach, as by a bond.

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A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.

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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.

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A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

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A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.

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A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.

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To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.

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To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.

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The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.

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A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or…

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To leap; to jump.

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To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

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

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

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Effective, as a cause or agent; causing.

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Effective, as a cause or agent; causing.

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To lead in; to introduce.

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To lead in; to introduce.

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An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.

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A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cove…

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Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the…

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To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…

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An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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Jet, the mineral.

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To lead in; to introduce.

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An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.

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To leap back; to rebound.

The factor that produces an effect.