Jump To:

• First Cause
  First Cause

  noun

  God.
• first cause
  first cause

  noun

  a source or cause of something

First Cause

American  

noun

Theology.

1. God.

---

first cause British  

noun

1. a source or cause of something

2. (often capitals) (esp in philosophy) God considered as the uncaused creator of all beings apart from himself

---

Etymology

Origin of First Cause

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

First Cause first cause

This reverts to the problem of the First Cause, which is the uncaused cause that gave rise to all other causes.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2018

Aquinas reasoned that each effect must have a cause and that an endless chain must proceed back to a primordial First Cause or Prime Mover.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Every form of living Christianity," he says, "is pantheistic in that it is bound to envisage everything that exists as having its being in the great First Cause of all being."

From Time Magazine Archive

Barth insists that natural theology can only understand God as a First Cause or a Great Designer or some similar abstract idea that in reality is a product of man's own thinking processes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of the First Cause we know nothing, of the Ultimate Issue we know even less, but my own faith is that as long as the idea of God persists, Man himself will not perish.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

The differences in density first cause stars to collide and merge.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

There is no first cause or prime mover in this system.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

West Antarctica “is what will first cause big problems for everyone with sea level rise,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2022

Kerry’s first cause after returning from fighting in the Vietnam War was activism for the first Earth Day, in 1970, he says.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2021

I make the egg rounds, starting with ole Miss Walter first cause she the elder.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett