[ad. L. catēnātiōn-em, f. catēnāre; see prec.]
1. A linking into a chain; connection like that between the links of a chain; arrangement in a connected series; connected succession.
1641. R. Brooke, Eng. Episc., I. v. 21. A perfect and universall catenation of all essentials and circumstantials.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 240.
1654. ‘Palæmon,’ Friendship, 24. So by this Catenation of Vices some one link of the chain would be found confessedly too heavy.
1838. Blackw. Mag., XLIV. 234. In the catenation of the objects … constituting that universe.
1876. Maudsley, Phys. Mind, iii. 164. An association or catenation of movements.
