Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a causative manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a causative manner.
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- adverb In a
causative manner - adverb Regarding
causation
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Examples
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Indeed, obesity is associated causatively to so many expensive diseases (rather as smoking is) that the health-care costs of treating the impoverished obese are likely to be enormous.
Our Big Problem 2010
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Or maybe some other factor that also correlates, but is causatively independent of wealth?
Evol. Psych Introduction Cont'd JLK 2009
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This strikes me as the logical equivalent of saying that legalized abortion is causatively related to an increase in the rate of child abuse.
Seven Posts About Abortion, Prenatal Testing and Down Syndrome 2005
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This strikes me as the logical equivalent of saying that legalized abortion is causatively related to an increase in the rate of child abuse.
Seven Posts About Abortion, Prenatal Testing and Down Syndrome 2005
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The word of God is sometimes called “incorruptible seed,” — seed causatively, as being an instrument in the hand of God whereby he planteth the seed of life and holiness in the heart.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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He has causatively led any nation into error and consequent destruction as a means of preparing for subsequent generations something higher and better, we cannot admit.
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
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What we call the wind is mediately the air moving but causatively, and immediately, and more profoundly, it is the action of the vito-magnetic fluid.
New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces Henry Raymond Rogers 1861
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It is the habit (well known to psychologists) of transferring to anything created by our own skill, or which reflects our own skill, as if it lay causatively and objectively [3] in the reflecting thing itself, that pleasurable power which in very truth belongs subjectively [3] to the mind of him who surveys it, from conscious success in the exercise of his own energies.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Their magic was causatively of no virtue at all, but, being believed in, through this belief it became the occasional means of exciting the imagination of its victims; after which the consequences were the same as if the magic had acted physically according to its pretences.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Christ had completely paid this sum, Christ was justified legally, as a public person, and all his seed fundamentally, meritoriously, causatively, but not in their persons.
The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan. 1600-1661 1645
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