adv. [f. CAUSAL + -LY2.] In a causal way, with causal force; in the manner of, or as being the cause; by way of cause and effect.
a. 1638. Mede, Wks., I. xxiv. (1672), 91. Καὶ is … to be taken here [Luke ii. 14] for a conjunction causal.… Or both causally and gratulatorily.
1634. Rainbow, Labour (1635), 22. As ’tis food it cannot be said to be causally perishing.
1640–4. Sir S. D’Ewes, in Rushw., Hist. Coll., III. (1692), I. 314. The … Elector of Saxony is causally guilty … of those Calamities and Slaughters.
1845. Blackw. Mag., LVII. 523. From the death of Patroclus to the death of Hector is an entirely new movement, though causally bound … to that antecedent.
a. 1847. Chalmers, Posth. Wks. (1847), I. 22. He was appeased causally and efficiently by God, yet proximately and intermediately by the presents … laid before him.
