catenate
Americanverb (used with object)
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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 Smith, John. B.
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 Darwin, Erasmus
Which is owing to the accumulation, of the sensorial power of irritation in one case, and of association in the other, contributing to actuate the next link of the catenated or associated motions.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
In this situation the superabundance of the accumulated power of irritation contributes to actuate the associate motions next catenated with them.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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