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.
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 Darwin, Erasmus
This is termed sensitive association, though those painful or pleasurable sensations do not cause the motions, but only attend them; and are thus perhaps, strictly speaking, only catenated with them.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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
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
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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