causator

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔːˈzeɪtə(ɹ)/

Noun

causator (plural causators)

1. Someone or something that causes something; a causer.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     the indivisible condition of the first causator

   • 2019, Mário A. Perini, Thematic Relations: A Study in the Grammar-Cognition Interface, page 20:

     We know what it means for someone to worship something, we can picture the scene, and so on: that is, the schema WORSHIP is part of our cognitive equipment. It includes a "worshipper." easily schematized as the Agent (defined as the "immediate causator of an event"), plus the "worshipped thing." liguistically mysterious but very clear as far as its cognitive role is concerned.

Usage notes

The use of the term causator is largely obsolete, with the exception that it is still used in the area of semantics.

Anagrams

• acatours, autocars

Latin

Verb

causātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of causor