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Catena   /kətˈinə/   Listen
Catena

noun
(pl. catene)
1.
A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).



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"Catena" Quotes from Famous Books



... separate the child from its mother's breast, to wean, but also 'separer', without this special sense; from 'pastor', 'patre', a shepherd in the literal, and 'pasteur' the same in a tropical, sense; from 'catena', 'chaine' and 'cadene'; from 'fragilis', 'frele' and 'fragile'; from 'pensare', 'peser' and 'penser'; from 'gehenna', 'gene' and 'gehenne'; from 'captivus', 'chetif' and 'captif'; from 'nativus', 'naif' ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench


Words linked to "Catena" :   catenulate, chain, catenate


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