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concatenated, ppl. a.|kɒnˈkætɪneɪtɪd| [f. prec. + -ed1.] Connected like the links of a chain, linked together. Mostly fig.
1611Cotgr., Concathené, concathenated, chained, or linked together. a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 86 Habitual, and customary, and concatenated sins. 1639Heywood Lond. Peaceable Estate Wks. 1874 V. 373 Increase Of all concatinated blessings. a1701Sedley Happy Pair Wks. 1766 I. 19 Tho' wealth their griping senses feasts..[who marry for money], they're but concatenated beasts. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Young Wks. IV. 274 His style is sometimes concatenated, and sometimes abrupt. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) II. 297 In a certain light they appeared a concatenated series of insects moving in a spiral direction upwards. 1836Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 282 A long concatenated deduction. |