Definition of "incatenation"
(archaic) The act of linking together; enchaining.
Quotations
[…] I am apt to think, that a perſon, vvho vvas ready to give more knovvledge than he received, vvould be vvelcome vvherever he came. […] Hovv much more nobly vvould a philoſopher, thus employed, ſpend his time, than […] more triflingly ſedulous in the incatenation of fleas, or the ſculpture of cherry-ſtones.
1765, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Essay XVIII”, in Essays. […], London: […] W. Griffin […], page 151