catenate
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Catenulate: like catenate; but the links are smaller.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
When the action of the stomach and bowels is impaired, much gas becomes generated by the fermenting or putrescent aliment, and to this indigestion is catenated languor, coldness of the skin, and fear.
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
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
In this situation the superabundance of the accumulated power of irritation contributes to actuate the associate motions next catenated with them.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Our identity is known by our acquired habits or catenated trains of ideas and muscular motions; and perhaps, when we compare infancy with old age, in those alone can our identity be supposed to exist.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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