catena
Americannoun
plural
catenaenoun
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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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 Machen, Arthur
E che non puote Amor, che con catena il ciel unisce?
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
Text and catena on all St. Paul's Epistles.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
On folio 180d we find a chapter entitled "De cathena gulae incisa vel fracta," and copied almost literally from the chapter "De catena gulae" of Roger.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer
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
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