Sentence:  And it saw the concept of an historical time in linear development as depriving it of the reassuring repetitions of a circular form of chronology that was connected to the seasons and to the cycle of agricultural work; which in turn was <WSD>scansioned</WSD> by rituals that reasserted its continuity with the world of myth. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Impose patterns on.