catena

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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

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.

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

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 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