An agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause.
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Examples for "first cause"
Examples for "first cause"
1Avoid envy which was the first cause of the loss of mankind.
2This is the first cause which, in this country, renders brick allowable.
3His devotion to her did not at first cause them any wonderment.
4Thou art the first cause of all the worlds thyself being eternal!
5This was the first cause of the union of the kingdoms.
1And the prime mover in the conspiracy had not yet been tried.
2Perhaps the prime mover was a dust mote or a single molecule-somewhere
3So now the prime mover in the revolt was in prison.
4She is the prime mover in all the charitable movements at the Madeleine.
5He was prime mover in the May games, and the feast of fools.
1The sphere which approaches most nearly to it is called the primum mobile.
2The ninth was the primum mobile, and inclosing all was the tenth heaven-theEmpyrean.
3No, I of only I want you to tell us what was the primum mobile in the matter.
4In thirty lines his patron is a river, the primum mobile, a pilot, a victim, the sun, any thing and nothing.
5And this is why that first moved-thePrimum Mobile-hassuch extremely rapid motion.
6The ninth, or Primum Mobile, revolved by the Seraphim, is the abode of the moral philosophers.
7The fixed unit of time is the day which is established by the revolution of the Primum Mobile.
8"The primum mobile of the new system was Motion, in distinction from the rest which marked the old monastic retreats."