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catena

[kuh-tee-nuh] / kəˈti nə /


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Catholic writers inherited the traditions and the temper of their forefathers, and believed the catena of their own historians.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude

Let not the weary reader imagine that the catena of evidence ends here!

From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Andrew Lang

She writhes nervously, and, as if she were calling for help, cries, "La catena! la catena!"

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

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, Complete by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

The Greek original of most of the first sentence is preserved in a catena on Deuteronomy, Cod.

From St. Dionysius of Alexandria Letters and Treatises by Bishop of Alexandria

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

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

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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