Exciting causes


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(Med.) those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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But now, when no exciting causes existed to arouse their slumbering tempers, it seemed to be too great an effort to enter on the defence of their rebellious brother.
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Whether this inclination be an exciting cause, or rather a valid proof of such profundity, it is a nice thing to say.
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And with that he left me, to marvel at his look and tone, and, more than ever, at the insufficiently exciting cause.
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