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catenate

[kat-n-ayt] / 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 following are natural animal actions, which are frequently catenated with our daily habits of life, as well as excited by their natural irritations.

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

Add to this, that the catenated circles of actions are of greater extent than in the other constitutions.

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

And if this activity be catenated with the diurnal circle of actions, an increasing inflammation is produced; as in the evening paroxysms of small-pox, and other fevers with inflammation.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I 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 quotidian fever are either catenated with solar time, and return at the intervals of twenty-four hours; or with lunar time, recurring at the intervals of about twenty-five hours.

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




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