[ad. med.L. concausa: see CON- and CAUSE.] A cooperating cause.

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a. 1619.  Fotherby, Atheom., II. iii. § 4 (1622), 223. Making it … the onely true cause: and all the rest, to be rather as instruments vnto it, then Concauses with it.

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a. 1630.  Jackson, Creed, V. xxi. Wks. IV. 201. A concause or coadjutor to base flattery.

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1793.  T. Taylor, Plato, Timæus, Introd. 371. The concauses … of natural productions.

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1836–7.  Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xl. (1870), II. 408. Heat and water together are the causes … Nay, there is a third concause … the atmosphere.

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