causate
English
Noun
causate (plural causates)
- (philosophy) The effect of a cause.
- 1848, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Philosophy of the Infinite; Outlines on a philosophical argument on the Infinite:
- 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 discovering the nature, and quality of the nexus, which subsists between the cause, and the causate, or between the infinite, and the first finite.
- 1923, Emanuel Swedenborg, The existence of the human soul:
- Hence the causing entity exists before the causate.
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Verb
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- (nonstandard, transitive) To cause.
- 1993, S. B. Kakkar, Readings in Educational Psychology, page 404:
- 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 praise and of reproof, respectively, can be delineated.
- 1999, Byron C. Jones and Pierre Mormède, Neurobehavioral Genetics: Methods and Applications, page 225:
- These studies indicated that variations of the IIP-MF projections...were probably associated with a physiological process inside the hippocampus causating behavioral differences in spacial learning and exploration.
- 2005, Mark Fernando, Questions You Always Wanted to Ask about Easter Answered, page 83:
- According to the Bible, Jesus Christ is the Last Adam who permanently reverses the effects of Original Sin causated by the First Adam.
- 1993, S. B. Kakkar, Readings in Educational Psychology, page 404:
Translations
cause — see cause
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
causate
- second-person plural present indicative of causare
- second-person plural imperative of causare
- feminine plural of causato
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) causāte
References
- “causate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press