cause
noun
a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect.
causable
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a word derived from
cause.
Example Sentences
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But as many of these fibrous contractions frequently accompanied other fibrous contractions, by habit they became causable by their associations with them; and the irritations, sensations, and volition, ceased to be necessary to their production.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
For this purpose he continues to repeat the first syllable, which is causable by volition, and strives in vain, by various distortions of countenance, to produce the next links, which are subject to association.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Many of the motions of our muscles, that are excited into action by irritation, are at the same time accompanied with painful or pleasurable sensations; and at length become by habit causable by the sensations.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Many of the motions of our organs of sense, or ideas, that were originally excited into action by irritation, become in like manner more frequently causable by our sensations of pleasure or pain.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Voluntary muscular motions are occasionally causable by sensations.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
