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causey

[ kaw-zee ]

noun

plural causeys.
  1. British Dialect. a causeway.
  2. Archaic. an ancient Roman highway.


causey

/ ˈɔːɪ /

noun

  1. an archaic or dialect word for causeway
  2. a cobbled street
  3. a cobblestone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of causey1

1125–75; Middle English cauce < Anglo-French < Old North French caucie, variant of cauciee < Late Latin ( via ) ٲ (road) paved with limestone, equivalent to Latin calci- (stem of calx ) limestone + -ٲ, feminine of -ٳܲ -ate 1
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Lindberg and Gray were among four people indicted in 2019, accused of trying to give $1.5 million to Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey’s election campaign in exchange for the removal of an insurance official who would be in charge of regulating Lindberg’s company.

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The federal government said Hayes had agreed to help funnel money going to the state GOP to Causey’s 2020 reelection campaign.

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At the 2020 trial, Lindberg’s lawyers argued in part that he didn’t commit a crime and that he was entrapped by Causey’s participation with authorities.

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Causey earned a Ph.D. from Duke University in 1940, and was "the predominant myriapodologist of her time," said Means.

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During Dunn's efforts to help catalogue the FSCA's holotypes, she says she found eight of Causey's millipedes sitting mislabeled on a shelf in the wrong building gathering dust.

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