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
When the action of the stomach and bowels is impaired, much gas becomes generated by the fermenting or putrescent aliment, and to this indigestion is catenated languor, coldness of the skin, and fear.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The remote cause is the torpor of the vessels of the skin catenated with the pain of fear, as explained in Sect.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
And if this activity be catenated with the diurnal circle of actions, an increasing inflammation is produced; as in the evening paroxysms of small-pox, and other fevers with inflammation.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Add to this, that the catenated circles of actions are of greater extent than in the other constitutions.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Thus the sickness, or inverted irritative motions of the stomach, are associated or catenated with the disturbed irritative ideas, or sensual motions, in vertigo; as in sea-sickness.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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