catenate
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Catenulate: like catenate; but the links are smaller.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
This is termed sensitive association, though those painful or pleasurable sensations do not cause the motions, but only attend them; and are thus perhaps, strictly speaking, only catenated with them.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Such also are our complex ideas, they are catenated tribes of ideas, which do not perfectly resemble their correspondent perceptions, because some of the parts are omitted.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Which is owing to the accumulation, of the sensorial power of irritation in one case, and of association in the other, contributing to actuate the next link of the catenated or associated motions.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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
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
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