<span class="searchmatch">proximate</span> <span class="searchmatch">principle</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">proximate</span> principles) (biochemistry, archaic) Any of a class of substances found ready-formed in animal and vegetable tissues...
<span class="searchmatch">proximate</span> principles plural of <span class="searchmatch">proximate</span> <span class="searchmatch">principle</span>...
t. causes”): ultimate <span class="searchmatch">proximate</span> cause <span class="searchmatch">proximate</span> <span class="searchmatch">principle</span> <span class="searchmatch">proximately</span> close or closest; adjacent <span class="searchmatch">proximate</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">proximates</span>) (linguistics) A grammatical...
reason <span class="searchmatch">principle</span> of verifiability <span class="searchmatch">principle</span> of verification <span class="searchmatch">proximate</span> <span class="searchmatch">principle</span> Q-<span class="searchmatch">principle</span> reality <span class="searchmatch">principle</span> rebus <span class="searchmatch">principle</span> reciprocity <span class="searchmatch">principle</span> Ritz's...
Synonym: occasion That which causes something: an efficient cause, a <span class="searchmatch">proximate</span> cause. The reason this tree fell is that it had rotted. 1996, Daniel Clement...
judge in his own cause order to show cause probable cause protocause <span class="searchmatch">proximate</span> cause rebel without a cause root cause root-cause show cause style of...
maladaptive shoulds by examining the differences between prior events, causes, <span class="searchmatch">proximate</span> causes, and moral responsibility. 2008, Working Mother, volume 31, number...