catena

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What could be easier than to form a catena of the most philosophical defenders of Christianity, who have exhausted language in declaring the impotence of the unassisted intellect?

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

This is a law, and by means of it we can discover at once that catena must become chaine; fata, a later feminine representation of the old neuter fatum, fée; pratum a meadow, pré.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

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

A small catena patrum has been given respecting Burnet, as a historian, in No. 3. pp.

From Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850 by Various

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.