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

D. 282 inf., transcribed by John Sancta Maura, a one-eyed Cyprian, aged 74, June 9, 1612: chart., with a catena.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Qui benignus crimina ignoscis, pater,   Facilisque semper confitenti ades reo, Aurem faventem precibus O! praebe meis;   Scelerum catena me laborantem grave Aeterna tandem liberet clementia,   Ut summa laus sit, summa Christo gloria.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

And this catena of passages might be largely extended.

From Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" by Lightfoot, Joseph Barber

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