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

In dreams the catenation of our ideas is very imperfect and perplexed; and the mind, by forgetting its own faint and confused links of association, may generate subjects of surprise to itself.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

Thus when vomiting is caused by the stimulus of a stone in the ureter, the sensation of pain seems to be a link of the catenation rather than an efficient cause of the vomiting.

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