catena

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We can now establish a catena of rappings and pour prendre date, can say that communications were established, through raps, with a so-called ‘spirit,’ more than three hundred years before the ‘Rochester knockings’ in America. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

The exact catena of the two crimes mattered less to me than the question: Had Glass possessed himself of the secret before making off?

From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

He says his evidence is cumulative; not a catena, the strength of which is in its weakest part, but distinct and independent lines, each of which corroborates the other.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene

The peasant-noble of Wordsworth had learnt to know love 'in huts where poor men lie,' and a long catena of poetical authorities might be adduced in support of the principle.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

In dura catena, in misera poena, Languendo, gemendo, et genu flectendo, Adoro, imploro ut liberes me.

From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various