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precauˈsation rare. [pre- A. 2.] Causation beforehand; predetermination.
1670Baxter Life of Faith ii. ix. 163 By his sustentation, and universal precausation and concourse. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 658 The ideas of precausation and fatality, of certainty and necessity, are so strongly rivetted together in men's minds.., that it is not easy to keep them asunder. |