catenationn.
/katɪˈneɪʃən/ A linking into a chain; connection like that between the links of a chain; arrangement in a connected series; connected succession.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun]
successionc1405
progression1483
discourse1541
consequency1548
array1576
consequence1597
sequence1597
concatenation1614
catenation1641
pursuance1645
consecution1651
successivenessa1676
sequentialism1848
successivity1866
sequentiality1883
1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie i. v. 21 A perfect and universall catenation of all essentials and circumstantials.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 240.
1654 ‘Palaemon’ Friendship 24 So by this Catenation of Vices some one link of the chain would be found confessedly too heavy.
1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 44 234 In the catenation of the objects..constituting that universe.
1876 H. Maudsley Physiol. of Mind iii. 164 An association or catenation of movements.
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