PROCATARC'TIC, adjective [Gr. to begin.] In medicine, pre-existing or predisposing; remote; as procatarctic causes of a disease, in distinction from immediate or exciting causes. Thus heat may be the procatarctic and extreme fatigue the immediate or exciting cause of a fever.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.