causate

plural causates

1. human sciencesThe effect of a cause.

   Hence the causing entity exists before the causate.

   1923, Emanuel Swedenborg, The existence of the human soul

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   In the present case, therefore, it now comes closer and closer, in thought, to the first finite; but before taking hold of it, and determining to explore it, the mind proposes, and ruminates, certain middle questions, touching the actual existence of a nexus, and the possibility there is, of discovering the nature, and quality of the nexus, which subsists between the cause, and the causate, or between the infinite, and the first finite.

   1848, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Philosophy of the Infinite; Outlines on a philosophical argument on the Infinite

   It is also causate-- that is, the effect of a cause--because it has had its beginning in something else.

   1940, Apostolos Makrakēs, A New Philosophy and the philosophical Sciences

comparative more causate · superlative most causate

1. obsoleterareCaused, existing due to a certain cause.

   A conscientionall, accidentall event..but no appropriate, causate, and observate experiment.

   1652, John Gaule, Πυς-μαντια, The Mag-Astro-Mancer, or the Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner posed and puzzled, 103

present singular third person causates · participle present causating · participle past causated · past causated

1. nonstandardobsoletetransitiveTo cause, originate.

   According to the Bible, Jesus Christ is the Last Adam who permanently reverses the effects of Original Sin causated by the First Adam.

   2005, Mark Fernando, Questions You Always Wanted to Ask about Easter Answered, page 83

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   This possibility may be explored by future researches involving stricter controls and protracted over longer periods of time so that on the one hand, the graduated development of the said characteristics and, on the other, retardation in the development of these, as causated by experimental doses of praise and of reproof, respectively, can be delineated.

   1993, S. B. Kakkar, Readings in Educational Psychology, page 404

   These studies indicated that variations of the IIP-MF projections...were probably associated with a physiological process inside the hippocampus causating behavioral differences in spacial learning and exploration.

   1999, Byron C. Jones, Pierre Mormède, Neurobehavioral Genetics: Methods and Applications, page 225

2. intransitivenonstandardobsoleteTo originate.