Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A closely linked series, especially of excerpted writings or commentaries.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A chain; a connected series of notions, arguments, or objects generally; a series of which each part or member has a close connection, like that of a link, with the preceding and following parts.
- n. A methodized series of selections from different authors to elucidate a doctrine or a system of doctrines; specifically, such a set of quotations from the church fathers to assist in the study of Christian dogmatics or biblical exegesis: as, the Catena Aurea of St. Thomas Aquinas.
- n. An Italian measure of length, a chain, equal in Naples to 52.07 feet, and in Palermo to 26.09 feet.
Wiktionary
- n. A series of related items.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A chain or series of things connected with each other.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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)
Etymologies
- From Medieval Latin, from Latin catēna ("chain") (from which also chain). (Wiktionary)
- Latin catēna, chain. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“An even more fitting example of the catena is offered by the catena aurea, or Golden Chain.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“To this end he drew up, in chronological order, a kind of catena of the historical texts on which the tradition rested.”
“Midrash Mishle, on Proverbs; (11) Yalqut Shimeoni, a kind of catena extending over all the Hebrew Scriptures.”
“Francis Lendacky)The Latin word "catena" means "chain" and it is this prayer the only one every Legionary is obliged to recite daily) which binds together the Legionaries, who, though part of one army, are scattered all over the world labouring in a multitude of vineyards.”
“catena," [23] beside which there was ever standing an usher, who opened or closed it according as he was commanded by those in authority.”
“A Kos diarist has assembled a catena of comments from p. o.'d RedState bloggers.”
“The distribution of dry evergreen forest habitats across a landscape catena is largely a function of gradients of soil moisture availability, with soil parent material unimportant.”
“Et inde catena quaedam fit, quae haeredes etiam ligat.”
“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.”
“An ancient catena continues the Greek for several lines further.”
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘catena’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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lunacy
moon-related
moon dog, transient lunar p..., selenography, moonbow, paraselene, maria, parantiselene, moon, luna, trapper's moon, harvest moon, hunter's moon and 94 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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English
vorciferous, vituperative, vitriolic, vitiation, vitiated, virulent, venerate, vanguard, viands, unimpeachable, unctuous, unanimity and 398 more...
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...a list from a notebook...
I found several pages of words in an old notebook. By the looks of it, they were words I learnt some time ago (and subsequently wrote down) from books by Patrick O'Brian and China Mieville, two aut...
trabacaloes, jocosity, ordnance, transom, douceur, purser, nostrum, gaby, sea-lawyer, bowsprit, officious, hobnailed and 124 more...
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senihele's Words
phantasmagoric, spectral, postlapsarian, exsanguinate, chimera, venesection, arcanum, pseudonymity, eschatology, ansible, sublunary, nepenthe and 55 more...
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bilby Italian - chain. Sep 23, 2008