catenation

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Across the shoulder runs one word that Drake inscribed, with a sharpened stick or similar tool: “catination,” a variant of catenation, the state of being yoked or chained.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2021

The text is written in the ancient Slavic Glagolitic script, and that sets the tone, texture and catenation of Janácek’s effusive score, with its powerful brass reiterations, exuberant choral outbursts.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2017

But as those sensations were followed by no movements of the system in consequence of them, they gradually ceased to be produced, not being joined to any succeeding link of catenation.

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

The whole catenation in proper sequence presented itself in one all-embracing vision—a scene painted on canvas, rather than the logical continuity of a screen picture.

From Prairie Flowers by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

We are taught, in the first instance, to observe carefully the phenomena of disease, and, by referring effects to probable causes, endeavour, however difficult the task, to trace their catenation.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)