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.
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
Catenated trains or tribes of action are easier dissevered than catenated circles of action.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Those retrograde associate motions, the first links of which are catenated with irritative motions, belong to this genus.
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
The remote cause is the torpor of the vessels of the skin catenated with the pain of fear, as explained in Sect.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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