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Meanings of first cause in English

An agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause.

Usage of first cause in English
1
Avoid envy which was the first cause of the loss of mankind.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
2
This is the first cause which, in this country, renders brick allowable.
The Poetry of Architecture / Or, the Architecture of the Nations...
3
His devotion to her did not at first cause them any wonderment.
Paul Faber, Surgeon
4
Thou art the first cause of all the worlds thyself being eternal!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
5
This was the first cause of the union of the kingdoms.
The Leading Facts of English History
6
The first cause was the rise of sects within the Synagogue.
Judaism
7
No one has explained the first cause of the development of an embryo.
The Shadow World
8
And not without some reason call I this the first cause of comfort.
Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation / With Modifications To ...
9
The first cause is one which it is difficult to exaggerate.
The Church and the Barbarians / Being an Outline of the History ...
10
God, therefore, is the first cause, Who moves causes both natural and voluntary.
Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) / From the Complete Americ...
11
He was only in his seventeenth year, when he pleaded his first cause.
The Life of Hugo Grotius / With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Eccl...
12
Corollary III.-Itfollows, thirdly, that God is the absolutely first cause.
Ethics
13
A first cause is just as impossible as a last effect.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I / Including His Answe...
14
The first cause of death of CGD patients is pulmonary infections.
Pubmed
15
Cancer is the first cause of natural death among young subjects.
Pubmed
16
No doubt the first cause of this trouble lay in the Richmond Government itself.
The Education of Henry Adams
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First cause through the time
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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