Definition of Causative. Meaning of Causative. Synonyms of Causative

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Definition of Causative

Causative
Causative Caus"a*tive, a. [L. causativus pertaining to a lawsuit (causa), but in the English sense from E. cause.] 1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. --Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
Causative
Causative Caus"a*tive (k[add]"z[.a]*t[i^]v), n. A word which expresses or suggests a cause.

Meaning of Causative from wikipedia

- In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated CAUS) is a valency-increasing operation that indicates that a subject either causes someone or something else...
- In linguistic morphology, causative mood serves to express a causal relation, e.g., a logical inference relation, between the current clause and the clause...
- linguistics, a labile verb (or ergative verb) is a verb that undergoes causative alternation; that is, it can be used both transitively and intransitively...
- In biology, a pathogen (Gr****: πάθος, pathos "suffering", "p****ion" and -γενής, -genēs "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism...
- This is a list of infectious diseases arranged by name, along with the infectious agents that cause them, the vaccines that can prevent or cure them when...
- Linguist Martin Haspelmath classifies inchoative/causative verb pairs under three main categories: causative, anticausative, and non-directed alternations...
- gives Lewy body disease as the causative subtype of dementia with Lewy bodies, and Parkinson's disease as the causative subtype of Parkinson's disease...
- Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the causative agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the causative agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis...
- Blackleg is caused by infection with Clostridium bacteria. The most common causative agent is C. chauvoei, but the disease can also be caused by C. septi****...
- experimental host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent. However, Koch later abandoned the universalist requirement of the...