ENCYCLOPAEDIA LONDINENSIS; 
OR, AN 
UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY 
O F 
ARTS, SCIENCES, and LITERATURE, 
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C A U 
AU'SA MATRIMO'NII PRAILO'CUTI, in law, a 
writ which lies where a woman gives land to a man in 
fee Ample, &c. to the intentTie fhould marry her, and he 
refufeth to do it in any reafonable time, being thereunto re¬ 
quired. Rrg. Orig. 66.. If a woman makes a feoffment to 
a ftranger, of land in fee, to the intent to infeoff her, and 
one who fhall be her hufband; if the marriage fliall not 
take effect, (he fhall have the writ of cauja matrimonii prx- 
iocuti againft the ftranger, notwithftanding the deed of feoff¬ 
ment beabfolute. New. Nat. Br. 456. A woman infeoffed 
a man upon condition that he fliould take her to wife, and 
he had a wife at the time of the feoffment; and afterwards 
the woman, for not performing the condition, entered 
again into the land, and her entry was adjudged lawful, 
though upon a fecond feoffee. Lib. AJj. 40. Ed. III. The 
hufband and wife may fue the writ caufa matrimonii prxlo- 
cnti againft another who ought to have married her: but 
if a man give lands to a woman to the intent to marry him, 
although the woman will not marry him, &c. he fhall not 
have his remedy by writ caufa matrimonii pra.locu.ti. New 
Nat. Br. 455. 
CAU'SABLE, adj. [from caifo, low I.at.] That which 
may be caufed, or effected by a caufe.—That may be mi- 
rac-uloufly effected in one, which is naturally caufable in 
another. Brown. 
CAU'SAL, adj. \_caufalis, low Lat.] Relating to caufes; 
implying or containing caufes.— Caujal proportions are, 
where two proportions are joined by caufal particles; as, 
houfes were not built, that they might be deitroyed; Re- 
hoboam was unhappy, becaufe he followed evil counfel. 
Waits. 
CAUSA'LITY, adj. [canfalitas, low Lat.] The agency 
of a caufe; the quality of caufing.—As God created all 
tilings, - fo is he beyond and in them all, in his very elfence, 
■as being the foul of their caufalities, and the effential caufe 
of their exiffences. Brown. 
CAU'SALLY, adv. According to the order or feries of 
caufes.—Thusmayit.be more caufally made out, what 
Hippocrates affirmeth. Brown. 
CAU'SAM NO'BIS SIGNPFICF.S, in law, a writ di¬ 
rected to a mayor of a town, &c. who was by the king’s 
writ commanded to give feifin of lands to the king’s gran¬ 
tee, on his delaying to do it, requiring him to Jhew caufe 
■why he fo delays tire performance of his duty. 
CAUS A'TION, f. [from raa/r, low Lat.] The adt or 
power of caufing.—Thus doth he fometimes delude us in 
the conceits of (tars and meteors, beffdes their allowable 
actions, afcribing effects thereunto of independent caufa- 
tion. Brown. 
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CAU'SATIVE, adj. [a term in grammar. ] That which 
expreffes a cattle or reafon. 
CAU'SATOR, f. [from caufo, low Lat.] A caufer; 
an authorof any efteCt. 
CAUSE, yi Z cau f a > Lat.] That which produces or ef¬ 
fects any thing; the efficient.—The wile and leirnedp 
amongft the very heathens themfelves, have all acknow¬ 
ledged fome firft caufe , whereupon originally the being of 
all things dependeth ; neither have they otherwife fpoken 
of that caufe, than as an agent, which, knowing what and 
why it workeih, obferveth, in working, a mod exact order 
or law. Hooker.—Caufe is a fubftance exerting its power 
into a< 5 t, to make one thing begin to be. Locke. —The rea¬ 
fon; motive to any thing : 
Thus, royal fir ! to fee you landed here. 
Was caufe enough.of triumph for a year. Dryden. 
Reafon of debate; fubjedt of litigation.—Hear the caufes 
between your brethren, and judge rightecully between 
every man and his brother, and the ftranger that is with 
him. Deuteronomy. —Side; party; ground or principle T 
action or oppofition : 
Ere to thy caufe and thee my heart inclin’d, 
Or love to party had feduc’d my mind. Ticke [. 
CAUSE, A among civilians, the fame with, or rather 
the caufe of, aCtion. See Action. 
CAUSE, A among phyficians, is applied to the caufe 
of adifeafe ; which is defined by Galen to be, that during 
the prelence of which we are ill, and which being remo¬ 
ved, the diforder immediately ceafes. The doctrine of 
the caufes of difeafes is called Etioloc y. It is often 
more difficult to difeover the caufes of diforders, than to 
preferibe for their cure when the caufe is known; and it is 
by this (kill and fagacity in making fitch difcpveries, that 
a phyfician flievvs how much he is above the ordinary prac¬ 
tice of an apothecary. Great confufion is met with in 
moft writers on this fubject; and indeed it is hard to fay 
from vvhofe theory we fhall proceed to an ufeful practice. 
One fays that the caufes of difeafes are in the fluids; an¬ 
other fixes them in the folids; fome proceed from chemi¬ 
cal, and others from mechanical, principles, See. But 
when reafoning a priori is laid afide, when nature is fiudied, 
and theory is confirmed only by clinical obfervation, 
this fubjeff, fo perplexed, may gradually unfold, and a 
theory be formed, which, fo far as it extends, will happily 
convert this uncertain fcienceinto an art. It is foRie latr - 
fa 61 ion to be able to account for morbid fymptoms, though 
the difeafes which give rife to them may. be in their own 
