Word Meanings - CAUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action. 5. Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. What counsel give

Additional info about word: CAUSE

A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action. 5. Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. What counsel give you in this weighty cause! Shak. 6. The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain. God befriend us, as our cause is just. Shak. The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause. Burke. Efficient cause, the agent or force that produces a change or redult. -- Final cause, the end, design, or object, for which anything is done. -- Formal cause, the elements of a conception which make the conception or the thing conceived to be what it is; or the idea viewed as a formative principle and coöperating with the matter. -- Material cause, that of which anything is made. -- Proximate cause. See under Proximate. -- To make common cause with, to join with in purposes and aims. Macaulay. Syn. -- Origin; source; mainspring; motive; reason; incitement; inducement; purpose; object; suit; action. (more info) 1. That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist. Cause is substance exerting its power into act, to make one thing begin to be. Locke. 2. That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing. 3. Sake; interest; advantage. I did it not for his cause. 2 Cor. vii. 12.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CAUSE)

• Agent
• Doer
• performer
• actor
• force
• means
• instrument
• influence
• cause
• promoter
• operator
• Author
• Creator
• producer
• inventor
• originator
• parent
• constructor
• agent
• maker
• composer
• fabricator
• committer
• perpetrator
• doer
• Dreed Generate
• procreate
• engender
• propagate
• produce
• beget
• hatch
• nourish
• train
• instruct
• evolve
• Bring
• Fetch
• procure
• convey
• carry
• bear
• adduce
• import
• induce
• Create
• Form
• make
• compose
• constitute
• generate
• fashion
• originate
• educe
• invent
• imagine

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CAUSE)

• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade

Related words: (words related to CAUSE)

• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• BROKERY
  The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• BREVIARY
  summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
• PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
  1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses.
• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• BRAND IRON
  1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• BRAZIL NUT
  An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell.
• DREDGE
  A mixture of oats and barley. Kersey. (more info) cf. Prov. dragea, It. treggea; corrupted fr. LL. tragemata, pl., sweetmeats, Gr.
• PARENTHESIS
  One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas
• BRAST
  To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• BROID
  To braid. Chaucer.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• EVOLVENT
  The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
• DREINTE; DREINT
  p. p. of Drench to drown. Chaucer.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• UNCREATED
  1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
• OPPROBRIOUS
  1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• BRASIER; BRAZIER
  An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• CAMBRIC
  1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures
• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.