catena
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Catholic writers inherited the traditions and the temper of their forefathers, and believed the catena of their own historians.
From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.
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
In dura catena, in misera poena Desidero Te!
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron
The Epistles have a catena, the Apocalypse a commentary.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
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
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