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 John. B. Smith
The following are natural animal actions, which are frequently catenated with our daily habits of life, as well as excited by their natural irritations.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
By the greater or less energy of action of the first link with which they are catenated, and from which they take their names; as irritative, sensitive, or voluntary associations.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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 Erasmus Darwin
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
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
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