Meanings of assign a cause in English

You must assign a cause for it, without having recourse to the first cause.

We see the effects of this irresolution, although we cannot assign a cause for it.

To this religious phenomenon (if correctly observed) we must attempt to assign a cause.

We introduce and test a classification system designed to assign a cause of death in twin pregnancies (CoDiT).

Cortlandt seemed much upset, and spent the rest of the day in writing out the facts and trying to assign a cause.

I told my father who they were, at which he expressed much wonder, and tried to assign a cause for their hurrying.

The President was left at liberty to suspend any officer without assigning a cause, and to nominate his successor.

Verbal autopsy questionnaires were administered to elicit mortality-related information and independently reviewed by three experienced paediatricians who assigned a cause and contributing factor to death.

17, 18, are taken from another historian, who assigns a cause for David's first frequenting Saul's court very different from that given in chap.