catenation
Example Sentences
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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
We are taught, in the first instance, to observe carefully the phenomena of disease, and, by referring effects to probable causes, endeavour, however difficult the task, to trace their catenation.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
It implies a regular co-ordination of ideas, a catenation of reflections, in which circumstances are linked with each other.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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 James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
