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
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 Erasmus Darwin
Fourthly, that if an animal motion be excited by more than one causation, association, or catenation, at the same time, it will be performed with greater energy.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
By catenation with stimulating substances in the ear.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
