catena

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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

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

By way of whetting the appetite for further enquiry, I give here a succinct catena of historic items, shewing the many interesting memories which cluster round our ancient cathedral city.

From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by Walter, James Conway

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