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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Causative \Caus"a*tive\, a. [L. causativus pertaining to a
lawsuit (causa), but in the English sense from E. cause.]
1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing.
Causative in nature of a number of effects. --Bacon.
2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as the ablative is
a causative case.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Causative \Caus"a*tive\ (k[add]"z[.a]*t[i^]v), n.
A word which expresses or suggests a cause
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
causative
adj : producing an effect; "poverty as a causative factor in
crime" [ant: {noncausative}]
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