Pronunciation: kạz
3.Sake; interest; advantage.
I did it not for his cause.
- 2 Cor. vii. 12.
What counsel give you in this weighty cause!
- Shak.
God befriend us, as our cause is just.
- Shak.
- Burke.
Efficient cause
the agent or force that produces a change or result.
Final cause
Formal cause
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 coöperating with the matter.
Material cause
that of which anything is made.
Proximate cause
See under Proximate.
To make common cause with
to join with in purposes and aims.
- Macaulay.
v. t.1.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 that with a finite verb.
I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days.
- Gen. vii. 4.
- Col. iv. 16.
v. i.1.To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
conj.1.Abbreviation of Because.
Synonyms: grounds, reason
4.cause - any entity that causes events to happen
Synonyms: case, causa, lawsuit, suit
Synonyms: do, make
Synonyms: induce, stimulate, make, get, have



CAUSE, pleading.The reason; the motive.


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Causa matrimonii praelocuti
Causa proxima
causal agency
causal agent
causal factor
-- Cause --
cause celebre
Cause of action
cause of death
cause to be perceived
cause to sleep
cause-effect graphing
Causes of instance
