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concause|ˈkɒnkɔːz|
[ad. med.L. concausa: see con- and cause.]
A co-operating cause.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. iii. §4 (1622) 223 Making it..the onely true cause: and all the rest, to be rather as instruments vnto it, then Concauses with it. a1630Jackson Creed v. xxi. Wks. IV. 201 A concause or coadjutor to base flattery. 1793T. Taylor Plato, Timæus Introd. 371 The concauses..of natural productions. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xl. (1870) II. 408 Heat and water together are the causes..Nay, there is a third concause..the atmosphere. |