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catenate

[kat-n-ayt] / ˈkæt nˌeɪt /


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Catenulate: like catenate; but the links are smaller.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

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 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

And if this activity be catenated with the diurnal circle of actions, an increasing inflammation is produced; as in the evening paroxysms of small-pox, and other fevers with inflammation.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

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

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




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