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Definition of Causal
1. Adjective. Involving or constituting a cause; causing. "A causal relationship between scarcity and higher prices"
Definition of Causal
1. a. Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.
2. n. A causal word or form of speech.
Definition of Causal
1. Adjective. of, relating to, or being a cause of something; causing ¹
2. Noun. (grammar) a word (such as because) that expresses a reason or a cause ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Causal
1. a word expressing cause or reason [n -S]
Medical Definition of Causal
1. Pertaining to a cause, directed against a cause. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Causal
Literary usage of Causal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the Hindi Language: In which are Treated the Standard Hindí by Samuel Henry Kellogg (1876)
"The first causal expresses immediate causation, and the second causal, ...
If the primitive be a neuter verb, it is plain that the 1st causal will be the ..."
2. Meta-Analysis of Drug Abuse Prevention Programs edited by William J. Bukoski (1998)
"In bivariate causal relationships, one is examining whether deliberately ...
In causal moderator relationships, one is interested in identifying variables ..."
3. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1908)
"FALLACIES OF MISTAKEN causal RELATION Our study of the kinds of argument should
have revealed the fact that all errors in reasoning are due to lack of a ..."
4. A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: To Wit, Hindi by John Beames (1879)
"We now come to the causal, an important and much used phase of the verb.
Sanskrit forms the causal by adding the syllable aya to the root, which often also ..."
5. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"causal clauses denoting a fact regularly take the indicative after primary and
... But causal clauses denoting an alleged or reported reason (1591) take the ..."
6. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1903)
"These causal and concessive uses of cum are of relative origin and are parallel
to qui causal and concessive (§535. e). The attendant circumstances are ..."
7. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"This A of the Tulu resembles the Hindustani causal— eg, chal-wA-nA, to cause to
go, from chal-nA, to go ; and as the Hindustani causative particle wA has ..."
8. Logic by Christoph Sigwart (1895)
"Once more, therefore, we see that the problem of rinding strict causal laws can
only be ... We must distinguish between the causal laws treated of in § 95, ..."
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