catenate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of catenate
1615–25; < Latin catēnātus chained, equivalent to catēn ( a ) a chain + -ātus -ate 1
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Catenulate: like catenate; but the links are smaller.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
The periods of hunger and thirst become catenated with certain portions of time, or degrees of exhaustion, or other diurnal habits of life.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Our identity is known by our acquired habits or catenated trains of ideas and muscular motions; and perhaps, when we compare infancy with old age, in those alone can our identity be supposed to exist.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
XX. and thus it appears, that many circles of association are either directly or reversely associated, or catenated, with this viscus; which will much contribute to unfold some of the symptoms of fever.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The paroxysms of the gout would seem to be catenated with solar influence, both in respect to their larger annual periods, and to their diurnal periods—See Sect.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Weaker catenated trains may be dissevered by the sudden exertion of the stronger.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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