Definition of Catenate

1. Verb. Arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores.

Exact synonyms: Catenulate
Generic synonyms: Arrange, Set Up
Derivative terms: Catena, Chain, Chain, Catena, Chain, Chain

Definition of Catenate

1. v. t. To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain.

Definition of Catenate

1. Verb. To connect things together, especially to form a chain. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Catenate

1. to link together [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]

Medical Definition of Catenate

1. Two or more circular DNA molecules where one or more circles run through the enclosed space of another like links in a chain. (16 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Catenate

catelectrotonus
catelog
catelogs
catena
catena compound
catenabacterium contortum
catenaccio
catenae
catenane
catenanes
catenaries
catenary
catenary bridge
catenary bridges
catenas
catenate (current term)
catenated
catenates
catenating
catenation
catenations
catenative
catenative verb
catenin
catenins
catenoid
catenoids
catenulate
cater
cater-corner

Literary usage of Catenate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Modalist: Or, The Laws of Rational Conviction. A Textbook in Formal Or by Edward John Hamilton (1891)
"MOST logical writers take the catenate syllogism, and that, too, ... To understand fallacies we must separate the catenate from the applicative inference, ..."

2. The Book of Nature by John Mason Good (1837)
"It would be easy to show, if we had lime, that the will is inte more disposed to catenate with the motions of the external senses ..."

3. The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education. Wherein the First by Robert Dodsley (1783)
"... being bounded I catenate Sea, which divides it trom Norway on the Mort' the fame ... by the catenate Sea on the South Ber en t*lc German on the Weft. ..."

4. Records of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1904)
"From these circumstances, and from the presence of catenate species at a higher horizon in the Swearing slates of California, ..."

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