Meanings
plural causators
- Someone or something that causes something; a causer.
the indivisible condition of the first causator
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC1 more example
We know what it means for someone to worship something, we can picture the scene, and so on: that is, the schema WORSHIP is part of our cognitive equipment. It includes a "worshipper." easily schematized as the Agent (defined as the "immediate causator of an event"), plus the "worshipped thing." liguistically mysterious but very clear as far as its cognitive role is concerned.
2019, Mário A. Perini, Thematic Relations: A Study in the Grammar-Cognition Interface, page 20
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