catena
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of catena
First recorded in 1635–45, catena is from the Latin word catēna a chain
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Example Sentences
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We can now establish a catena of rappings and pour prendre date, can say that communications were established, through raps, with a so-called ‘spirit,’ more than three hundred years before the ‘Rochester knockings’ in America.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew
We have thus established what we believe is called by theologians a catena of precedents, coming down from the days of the Commonwealth to our own time.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various
The catena of Nicetas “textus particulatim praemittit commentariis.”
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
When I was in Venice in 1818, at which time the genuine Venetian chain was still being made, a goldsmith told me that those who made the catena fina turned blind at thirty.
From Essays of Schopenhauer by Schopenhauer, Arthur
Post hunc consequitur sollerti corde Prometheus, 295Extenuata gerens veteris vestigia poenae, Quam quondam scythicis restrictus membra catena Persolvit pendens e verticibus praeruptis.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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