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  First Cause

  noun

  God.
• first cause
  first cause

  noun

  a source or cause of something

First Cause

American  

noun

Theology.

1. God.

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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

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Etymology

Origin of First Cause

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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

But to him, ethical piety cannot depend upon the impersonal First Cause manifested in nature but upon the First Cause manifested in the "will-to-love."

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

If it has not been permitted to him to see the First Cause face to face, at least he has attained a true mathematical idea of the series of secondary causes.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille