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catena

[kuh-tee-nuh] / kəˈti nə /


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From her husband's voice she had been led to fear something more tangibly unpleasant than a vague catena of prophecies.

From The House of Souls by Arthur Machen

What could be easier than to form a catena of the most philosophical defenders of Christianity, who have exhausted language in declaring the impotence of the unassisted intellect?

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond

And this catena of passages might be largely extended.

From Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is a law, and by means of it we can discover at once that catena must become chaine; fata, a later feminine representation of the old neuter fatum, fée; pratum a meadow, pré.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller

He says his evidence is cumulative; not a catena, the strength of which is in its weakest part, but distinct and independent lines, each of which corroborates the other.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith

The Received text is supported by the third hand of C, by EHLP, by all the cursives, by the two Syriac and Armenian versions, the catenae, Chrysostom and Theophylact.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

It is beautifully written, and contains catenae, Victor's commentary on St. Mark, and other treatises enumerated by Scholz, who collated most of it.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

But this dependence upon superiors is but one chain of the lovers of power, Amatorem trecentae Pirithoum cohibent catenae.

From Cowley's Essays by Abraham Cowley




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