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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

The remote cause is the torpor of the vessels of the skin catenated with the pain of fear, as explained in Sect.

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

In the rumination of horned cattle the food is brought up from the first stomach by the retrograde motions of the stomach and œsophagus, which are catenated with the voluntary motions of the abdominal muscles.

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

Those retrograde associate motions, the first links of which are catenated with irritative motions, belong to this genus.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II 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

Such also are our complex ideas, they are catenated tribes of ideas, which do not perfectly resemble their correspondent perceptions, because some of the parts are omitted.

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




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