What is another word for "influence"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "influence": act, acting, action, advance, aforementioned, aforesaid, agency, agent, anaesthesia, anaesthetic, anaesthetize, antecedence, antecedency, antecedent, anteposition, anterior, anteriority, ball, bear, before, benumb, blunt, bring, callous, case, causation, chloral, chloroform, coma, comatose, come, coming, dance, dead, despair, doing, dull, effect, effectual, efficacious.