EFFECT

, the result or consequence of the application of a cause, or agent, on some subject. It is one of the great axioms in philosophy, that full effects are always proportional to the powers of their adequate causes.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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EAVES
ECHO
ECLIPSAREON
ECLIPSE
ECLIPTIC
* EFFECT
EFFECTION
EFFERVESCENCE
EFFLUVIUM
ELASTIC
ELECTIONS