Also 6–8 -catinate (7 -cathenate). [f. L. concatēnāt-, ppl. stem of concatēnāre to link together, f. con- + catēnāre to chain, f. catēna CHAIN: see -ATE3.] trans. To chain together (obs.); to connect like the links of a chain, to link together. fig.

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1598.  Barckley, Felic. Man (1631), 366, marg. Three bodily worlds concatinated.

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1622.  Malynes, Anc. Law-Merch., 356. The said Modells to containe on the one side, the world concatenated together vnder a Crowne Imperiall.

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1631.  Heywood, Lond. Jus Hon., Wks. 1874, IV. 277. A Chaine wherein all cheife Vertues and Graces are concatinated and link’t together.

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1751.  Johnson, Rambler, No. 151, ¶ 7. Propositions are … concatenated into arguments.

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1811.  Pinkerton, Petral., II. 5. A theory is useful to concatenate facts.

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1872.  Minto, Eng. Lit., 248. Closely concatenating his thoughts.

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