v. [f. L. catēnāt- ppl. stem of catēnāre (f. catēna chain); see -ATE3.]
1. trans. To connect like the links of a chain, to link, to string together; to form into a catena or series. Hence Catenated ppl. a.
1623. Cockeram, Catennate, to chaine.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Catenate, to link, chain or tie.
1794–6. E. Darwin, Zoon. (1801), I. 112. If this activity be catenated with the diurnal circle of actions, an increasing inflammation is produced.
a. 1876. J. H. Newman, Hist. Sk., II. V. v. 477. He fused those catenated passages into one homogeneous comment.
1876. Maudsley, Phys. Mind, v. 308. A transference of energy from one to another of the catenated cells.
2. fig. (humorously.) To bind as with a chain.
178[?]. Mock Ode, in Boswell, Johnson (1816), IV. 428. This gigantic frame … catenated by thy charms, A captive in thy ambient arms.
