Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being the immediate cause; in medicine, noting a cause which immediately kindles a disease into action when there exists a predisposition to it. The procatarctic cause is often denominated the exciting cause. See
efficient cause , under efficient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.), obsolete Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Descriptive of an existing condition or state that caused, predisposed for or excited a present condition.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word procatarctic.
Examples
-
Christ is not, indeed, the procatarctic cause of that decree by which he determined such a dispensation of things; but the mediation of Christ, who was made sin for those to whom their sins are not imputed, is the foundation for the actual administration of the whole of that decree, respecting that part of it which consists in the dispensation of free grace and sparing mercy.
A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.