catena
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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
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
Et inde catena quaedam fit, quae haeredes etiam ligat.
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert
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
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
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