catena
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When I was in Venice in 1818, at which time the genuine Venetian chain was still being made, a goldsmith told me that those who made the catena fina turned blind at thirty.
From Essays of Schopenhauer by Schopenhauer, Arthur
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
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 Greek original of most of the first sentence is preserved in a catena on Deuteronomy, Cod.
From St. Dionysius of Alexandria Letters and Treatises by Alexandria, Bishop of
St. Matthew in vermilion with catena in black.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
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