[ad. L. concatēnāt-us, pa. pple. of concatēnāre: see next, and -ATE2.] Chained together (obs.); linked together; concatenated. In Entom., etc., said of rows of processes connected by ridges, or the like.

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1471.  Ripley, Comp. Alch., II. v., in Ashm. (1652), 136. The Elements be so concatenat.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 652. Thus are all the genuine attributes of the Deity … inseparably concatenate.

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1871.  M. Cooke, Fungi (1874), 131. Sporidia … attached together in fours in a concatenate or beaded manner.

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  Hence Concatenateness, ‘the being linked together’ (Bailey, 1730–6).

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