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Brewer's: Cause
(The). A mission; the object or project. To make common cause. To abet the same object. Here “cause” is the legal term, meaning pro or con, as it may be, the cause or side of the question advocated.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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