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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Voluntary muscular motions are occasionally causable by sensations.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The muscular motions that are generally subservient to volition, are also occasionally causable by irritation, as in stretching the limbs after sleep, and yawning.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
In like manner the sensual motions, or ideas, that are most frequently connected with volition, are nevertheless occasionally causable by painful or pleasurable sensation.
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
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
