| 单词 | proximate cause |
| 释义 | > as lemmasproximate cause a. Coming immediately before or after in a chain of causation, agency, reasoning, or other relation; immediate, short-term. Frequently in proximate cause. Opposed to remote or ultimate. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [noun] > types of cause efficient cause1393 conjunct causec1400 final causec1400 meritorious cause1526 matter1570 deficient cause1581 effectrix1583 formal cause1586 material cause1586 final cause1587 conservant cause1588 efficient1593 effective1610 defective cause1624 proximate cause1641 the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > of or relating to types of cause nigh1551 next1581 procatarctical1601 procatarctic1603 objective1620 defective1624 univocala1640 proximate1641 propinque1649 proxime1649 proegumene1650 proegumenal1656 con-causal1660 proegumenical1663 propinquate1665 proegumenous1676 synectical1697 proegumenic1711 proximous1724 proximal1828 synectic1869 monocausal1937 the world > relative properties > relationship > [adjective] > immediate or direct immediate1533 direct1600 primary1621 proximate1641 1641 Ld. Digby Speeches High Court Parl. 16 Wicked Ministers have bin the proximate causes of our miseries. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xii. 114 We hastily conclude that impossible, which we see not in the proximate capacity of its Efficient. 1713 R. Nelson Life Dr. George Bull xxxiii. 190 Whether one call this Power the remote and fundamental, or the proximate Power of Free-will. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 127 The proximate cause of her breach with Sir Ulic Mackilligut. 1792 G. Crabbe Let. 5 Sept. in Sel. Lett. & Jrnls. (1985) i. 45 The discovery of the cause (the proximate cause) of muscular motion which has so long puzzled physiologists, is an important communication. 1825 Lancet 10 Dec. 373/1 The proximate cause of cholic is said to be spasm of the intestine. 1881 B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort New Test. in Orig. Greek II. Introd. iii. 219 Readings that are explicable by the supposition of a common proximate original. 1927 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 49 3061 Our work indicates that the proximate cause of superacidity in a solution is an abnormally high value of the hydrogen-ion activity. 1969 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 244 4075/2 Present evidence does not favor 3-hydroxyuric acid as a proximate oncogen. 2002 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 20 Apr. 1525/3 The proximate trigger was the Gulf war in the second half of 1990–91, which jacked up international oil prices. < as lemmas |
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