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

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 Darwin, Erasmus

By catenation with stimulating substances in the ear.

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

In dreams the catenation of our ideas is very imperfect and perplexed; and the mind, by forgetting its own faint and confused links of association, may generate subjects of surprise to itself.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various