Hypertext Webster Gateway: "causing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cause \Cause\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caused}; p. pr. & v. n.
{Causing}.] [F. causer, fr. cause, fr. L. causa. See {Cause},
n., and cf. {Acouse}.]
To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to
bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually
followed by an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite
verb.
I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days.
--Gen. vii. 4.
Cause that it be read also in the church of the
Laodiceans. --Col. iv. 16.
Syn: To create; produce; beget; effect; occasion; originate;
induce; bring about.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
causing
n : the act of causing something to happen [syn: {causation}]
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