ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Connected like the links of a chain, linked together. Mostly fig.

1

1611.  Cotgr., Concathené, concathenated, chained, or linked together.

2

a. 1631.  Donne, in Select. (1840), 86. Habitual, and customary, and concatenated sins.

3

1639.  Heywood, Lond. Peaceable Estate, Wks. 1874, V. 373. Increase Of all concatinated blessings.

4

a. 1701.  Sedley, Happy Pair, Wks. 1766, I. 19. Tho’ wealth their griping senses feasts … [who marry for money], they’re but concatenated beasts.

5

1779–81.  Johnson, L. P., Young, Wks. IV. 274. His style is sometimes concatenated, and sometimes abrupt.

6

1816.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1843), II. 297. In a certain light they appeared a concatenated series of insects moving in a spiral direction upwards.

7

1836.  Sir W. Hamilton, Discuss. (1852), 282. A long concatenated deduction.

8