Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for catena. Search instead for cotena.
Definitions

catena

[kuh-tee-nuh] / kəˈti nə /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Text and catena on all St. Paul's Epistles.

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

Nearly the same assertion may be found, with varieties of caution and of confidence, in a catena of divines, from Bergier to Newman.

From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton

In other words, such as chaîne for catena, roue for rota, épée for spatha, aimêe for amata, it has disappeared altogether.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

A small catena patrum has been given respecting Burnet, as a historian, in No. 3. pp.

From Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850 by Various

This treatise may be regarded, in its general outlines, as a philosophical amplification of the passage in Horace:—     Ira furor brevis est: animum rege; qui, nisi paret,     Imperat: hunc fraenis, hunc tu compesce catena.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: Nero by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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

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


Vocabulary lists containing catena

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training