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causative, a.|ˈkɔːzətɪv|
Also 5 -ife.
[a. F. causatif, ad. L. causātīvus; see cause v. and -ive.]
1. Effective as a cause, productive of (an effect).
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 3848 It of his dethe was verray causatife. c1425Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxvii. 255 The Proces Causative That eftyr folowit effective. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. viii. §1 That, that is causative in nature of a number of effects. 1830Coleridge Rem. (1836) III. 1 That which is essentially causative of all being must be causative of its own. 1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 321 A superhuman causative agency.
b. ellipt. Of causation, of the existence of a causative agency.
1842W. Grove Corr. Phys. Forces (ed. 6) 9 Hypothetical currents were supposed, for the purpose of carrying out the causative view.
2. Gram. Expressing a cause or causation; = causal 4. Also as n., a causative word.
c1600Swinburn Spousals (1686) 149 These words..are to be understood causative. 1750–1Student II. 308 (T.) Let any Hebrew reader judge whether hiphel..can properly be said, in general..to be causative. 1824J. Gilchrist Etymol. Interp. 150 Lay is manifestly the causative of Lie. 1879Whitney Skr. Gram. §540 The secondary or derivative conjugations are..the passive, the intensive, the desiderative, the causative. Ibid. 607 This stem..has to a great extent a causative value.
Hence ˈcausativeness, causaˈtivity, the fact of being causative, causative quality.
1846O. A. Brownson Wks. VI. 107 He is the causativeness of all and of each. 1856J. H. Newman Callista 67 The egg comes first in relation to the causativity of the chick, and the chick comes first in relation to the causativity of the egg. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 208 Its causativity is accounted for by erroneous imputation. |