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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 ]

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