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
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
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
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
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
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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