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

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)

Then the heart and arteries which are next in catenation, become less active from the want of sufficient excitement of the sensorial power of association, which previously contributed to actuate them.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II 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