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a. [ Pref. anti- + Gr. &unr_; fever, &unr_; to burn. ] (Med.) Good against an inflammatory fever. -- n. A remedy for such a fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

conj. [ OE. bycause; by + cause. ] 1. By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In order that; that. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace. Matt. xx. 31. [ 1913 Webster ]

Because of, by reason of, on account of. [ Prep. phrase. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Eph. v. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Because, For, Since, As, Inasmuch As. These particles are used, in certain connections, to assign the reason of a thing, or that “on account of” which it is or takes place. Because (by cause) is the strongest and most emphatic; as, I hid myself because I was afraid. For is not quite so strong; as, in Shakespeare, “I hate him, for he is a Christian.” Since is less formal and more incidental than because; as, I will do it since you request me. It more commonly begins a sentence; as, Since your decision is made, I will say no more. As is still more incidental than since, and points to some existing fact by way of assigning a reason. Thus we say, as I knew him to be out of town, I did not call. Inasmuch as seems to carry with it a kind of qualification which does not belong to the rest. Thus, if we say, I am ready to accept your proposal, inasmuch as I believe it is the best you can offer, we mean, it is only with this understanding that we can accept it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. cata + caustic. ] (Physics) Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) A caustic curve formed by reflection of light. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being caused. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. causalis. See Cause. ] Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Causal propositions are where two propositions are joined by causal words. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A causal word or form of speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Causalities /plu>. 1. The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

The causality of the divine mind. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phren.) The faculty of tracing effects to their causes. G. Combe. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. [ 1913 Webster ]

The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in the law of universal causation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. causativus pertaining to a lawsuit (causa), but in the English sense from E. cause. ] 1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A word which expresses or suggests a cause. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a causative manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cause. ] One who causes. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cause, fr. L. causa. Cf. Cause, v., Kickshaw. ] 1. That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cause is substance exerting its power into act, to make one thing begin to be. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Sake; interest; advantage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I did it not for his cause. 2 Cor. vii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

What counsel give you in this weighty cause! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

God befriend us, as our cause is just. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Efficient cause, the agent or force that produces a change or result. --
Final cause, the end, design, or object, for which anything is done. --
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 cooperating 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.

Syn. -- Origin; source; mainspring; motive; reason; incitement; inducement; purpose; object; suit; action. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Caused p. pr. & vb. n. Causing. ] [ F. causer, fr. cause, fr. L. causa. See Cause, n., and cf. Acouse. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days. Gen. vii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans. Col. iv. 16.

Syn. -- To create; produce; beget; effect; occasion; originate; induce; bring about. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

conj. Abbreviation of Because. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Having a cause. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Self-originating; uncreated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. [ 1913 Webster ]

My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Without cause or reason. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being causeless. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who or that which causes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. causer to chat. ] Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., fr. causer to talk. ] A kind of sofa for two persons. A tête-à-tête. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. cauci, cauchie, OF. cauchie, F. chaussée, from LL. (via) calciata, fr calciare to make a road, either fr. L. calx lime, hence, to pave with limestone (cf. E. chalk), or from L. calceus shoe, from calx heel, hence, to shoe, pave, or wear by treading. ] A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The other way Satan went down
The causey to Hell-gate. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. causidicakis; causa a cause in law + dicare to say. ] Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. causticum (sc. medicamentum). See Caustic, a. ] 1. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Optics) A caustic curve or caustic surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. caustucs, Ge. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to burn. Cf. Calm, Ink. ] 1. Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caustic curve (Optics), a curve to which the ray of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane. --
Caustic lime. See under Lime. --
Caustic potash,
Caustic soda (Chem.), the solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same. --
Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic. --
Caustic surface (Optics), a surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.

Syn. -- Stinging; cutting; pungent; searching. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a caustic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being caustic; causticity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A joint cause. Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. dia- + caustic. ] (Opt.) Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Med.) That which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) A curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.

a. [ L. encausticus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to burn in; &unr_; in + &unr_; to burn: cf. F. encaustique. See Caustic, and cf. Ink. ] (Fine Arts) Prepared by means of heat; burned in. [ 1913 Webster ]

Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. --
Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. encaustica, Gr. &unr_; (sc. &unr_;): cf. F. encaustique. See Encaustic, a. ] The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; quietly + &unr_; burning, fr. &unr_; to burn. ] A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Galvanic + caustic. ] Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. holocaustum, Gr. &unr_;, neut. of &unr_;, &unr_;, burnt whole; "o`los whole + kaysto`s burnt, fr. kai`ein to burn (cf. Caustic): cf. F. holocauste.] 1. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. Milton. [1913 Webster]

2. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.] [1913 Webster]

3. Specifically: The mass killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis during the period from 1933 to 1945 in Germany and German-occupied lands; usually referred to as The Holocaust. In Hebrew, the same event is referred to by the word Shoah. [PJC]

n. [ L. hypocaustum, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; under + &unr_; to burn: cf. F. hypocauste. ] (Anc. Arch.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not causal.
Syn. -- uncausal, uncausative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. not causative. Opposite of causative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]