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Catena

Catena Meaning & Definition
Catena Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Catena?

[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)

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See Also | chain | concatenation

Catena In Webster's Dictionary

\Ca*te"na\, n.; pl. {Catene}. [L., a chain.] A chain or series of things connected with each other. I have . . . in no case sought to construct those caten[ae] of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. --C. J. Ellicott.

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