Linked in a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; successive.
1960, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, In fact the titles could be anything – or (with some of the most puissant) no title at all, but they could all be identified as "flappers" by function: each one held arbitrary and concatenative veto over any attempted communication from the outside world to the Great Man who was the nominal superior of the flapper.
