Also 5–6 cawser. [f. CAUSE v.1 + -ER1.] He who or that which causes; the agent by whom or which an effect is produced. † First Causer: God. Obs.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Mother of God, 12. Causer of pees, stynter of wo & stryf.
c. 1420. Occleve, To Dk. York, 62. Out upon pryde, causer of my wo!
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (1531), 2 b. Who was þe fyrst causer of all thynges.
1538. Leland, Itin., VIII. 30. Olde Erle Thomas … was Cawser that new Quier of the Collegiate Churche … was newly reedified.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 190 b. It is a causer of sweete and pleasant sleepes.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 1. Neither are Tartarous humours the causers or Patrons of infirmities.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VII. lxxxix. 383. Thou the causer of all these shocking scenes!
1821. Byron, Sardan., II. i. 309. Bel. I trust there is no cause. Sar. No cause, perhaps, But many causers.
1866. J. G. Murphy, Comm., Exod. xv. 2, 145. Jehovah is … the constant Causer of all effects.
