catenation

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To explain this difficult problem we must more minutely consider the catenations of animal motions, as described in Zoonomia, Vol.

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus

So far are we governed by the catenations of motions, which affect both the body and the mind of man, and which begin with our irritability, and end with it.

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

And what can influence or govern these actions of the gland, but its associations or catenations with other sensitive motions?

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

So if a considerable part of a connected tribe of action be disturbed, that whole tribe goes on with confusion, till the part of the tribe affected regains its accustomed catenations.

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

The associate trains or circles of motions continue; but their catenations with some of the irritative motions are disordered, or inverted, or dissevered.

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