2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Cause  \Cause\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Caused};  p.  pr  &  v.  n. 
  {Causing}.]  [F.  causer,  fr  cause  fr  L.  causa.  See  {Cause}, 
  n.,  and  cf  {Acouse}.] 
  To  effect  as  an  agent;  to  produce;  to  be  the  occasion  of  to 
  bring  about  to  bring  into  existence;  to  make  --  usually 
  followed  by  an  infinitive,  sometimes  by  that  with  a  finite 
  verb 
 
  I  will  cause  it  to  rain  upon  the  earth  forty  days. 
  --Gen.  vii.  4. 
 
  Cause  that  it  be  read  also  in  the  church  of  the 
  Laodiceans.  --Col.  iv  16. 
 
  Syn:  To  create;  produce;  beget;  effect;  occasion;  originate; 
  induce;  bring  about 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  causing 
  n  :  the  act  of  causing  something  to  happen  [syn:  {causation}] 

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