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
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
The periods of quotidian fever are either catenated with solar time, and return at the intervals of twenty-four hours; or with lunar time, recurring at the intervals of about twenty-five hours.
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
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
In the rumination of horned cattle the food is brought up from the first stomach by the retrograde motions of the stomach and œsophagus, which are catenated with the voluntary motions of the abdominal muscles.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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