(philosophy, natural science) The design, pattern, or pure concept of a thing, which gives form or structure to its matter.

The official cause of a human death as typically determined by a coroner during an autopsy and included on the deceased's death certificate.

plural of cause of death

Causation; causality; the process whereby causes lead to effects.

(metalogic) Of self-sufficient causality/causation.

plural of proximate cause

Shared purpose. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see common, cause.

The belief that the Confederate cause during the American Civil War was just and not related to slavery.

plural of common cause

(law) An unforeseeable event that occurs after a tortfeasor's initial act of negligence and causes injury to a victim. It generally absolves the tortfeasor of liability for injury.