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Words Expressing Abstract Relations

Section VIII.—Causation

1°. Constancy of Sequence in Events

153. Constant antecedent.

Cause (Substantives), origin, source, principle, element, occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile, spring, mainspring, agent, seed, leaven, groundwork, fountain, well, fount, fountain-head, spring-head, parent 166, fons et origo, raison d'être.

Pivot, hinge, turning-point, key, lever.

Final cause, ground, reason, the reason why, the why and the wherefore, rationale, occasion, derivation, provenance.

Rudiment, germ, embryo, mushroom, bud, root, radix, radical, etymon, nucleus, seed, ovum, stem, stock, trunk, taproot.

Nest, cradle, womb, nidus, birthplace, hot-bed, forcing-bed.

Causality, origination, causation, production 161, ètiology.

Theories of causation: Creationism; Evolution, Lamarckism, Darwinism, Spencerism, Orthogenesis, etc.

(Phrases). Behind the scenes; le dessous des cartes.

(Verbs). To be the cause of, to originate, germinate, give origin to, cause, occasion, give rise to, kindle, suscitate, bring on, bring to pass, give occasion to, produce, bring about, found, lay the foundation of, lie at the root of, procure, draw down, induce, realise, evoke, entail, develop, evolve, operate (see 161), to elicit.

To conduce, contribute, tend to 176.

(Phrases). To have a hand in; to have a finger in the pie; see Produce 161; to open the door to; to be at the bottom of; to sow the seeds of.

(Adjectives). Caused, occasioned, etc., causal, original, primary, primordial, having a common origin, connate, radical, embryonic, embryotic, in ovo, in embryo.

Evolutionary, Darwinian, etc; ètiological.

154. Constant sequent.

Effect (Substantives), consequence, product, result, resultant, resultance, upshot, issue, end 67, fruit, crop, aftermath, harvest, development, outgrowth, karma.

Production, produce, work, performance, creature, creation, offshoot, fabric, first-fruits, first-lings, output, dénouement, derivation, heredity, evolution 161.

(Verbs). To be the effect, work, fruit, result, etc., of, to be owing to, originate in or from, rise from, to take its rise from, arise, spring, proceed, evolve, come of, emanate, come, grow, bud, sprout, issue, flow, result, follow, accrue, etc., from; come to; to come out of, be derived from, be caused by, depend upon, hinge upon, turn upon, result from, to be dependent upon, hang upon; to pan out.

(Adjectives). Owing to, resulting from, through, etc., all along of, hereditary, genetic, derivative.

(Adverbs). Of course, consequently, necessarily, eventually.