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catenate

[kat-n-eyt] / 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

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 Erasmus Darwin

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 Erasmus Darwin

Natural actions catenated with daily habits of life.

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

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

Weaker catenated trains may be dissevered by the sudden exertion of the stronger.

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




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