causate
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causate¹
Where it comes from
First attested in 1652; borrowed from Medieval Latin causātus, perfect passive participle of causō (“to cause”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
noun causates
- The effect of a cause. In the present case, therefore, it now comes closer and closer, in thought, to the first finite; but before taking hold of it, and determining to explore it, the mind proposes, and ruminates, certain middle questions, touching the actual existence of a nexus, and the possibility there is, of discove
adjective more causate · most causate
- Caused, existing due to a certain cause. A conscientionall, accidentall event..but no appropriate, causate, and observate experiment.
causate²
Where it comes from
First attested in 1852, in the writings of the poet Philip James Bailey; from cause + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
verb causates · causating · causated
- To cause, originate. This possibility may be explored by future researches involving stricter controls and protracted over longer periods of time so that on the one hand, the graduated development of the said characteristics and, on the other, retardation in the development of these, as causated by experimental doses of
- To originate.
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title = {causate},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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