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Catena

noun

(pl. catene)

A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma).

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"Catena" Quotes from Famous Books

... series, congeries, carcanet, catena, chatelaine, necklace, gorget, links, torque; ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... platano lentaque sorore 290 Flammati Phaethontis et aeria cupressu. Haec circum sedes late contexta locavit, Vestibulum ut molli velatum fronde vireret. Post hunc consequitur sollerti corde Prometheus, Extenuata gerens veteris vestigia poenae, 295 Quam quondam scythicis restrictus membra catena Persolvit pendens e verticibus praeruptis. Inde pater divom sancta cum coniuge natisque Advenit caelo, te solum, Phoebe, relinquens Vnigenamque simul cultricem montibus Idri: 300 Pelea nam tecum pariter soror aspernatast Nec ...

— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus

... other of that size that had been made up to that time. He then made a Crucifix with S. Antonino, on canvas, which was placed in the chapel of that Saint in S. Marco. In the Palace of the Signoria of Florence, at the Porta della Catena, he made a S. John the Baptist; and in the house of the Medici he painted for the elder Lorenzo three figures of Hercules in three pictures, each five braccia in height. The first of these, which is slaying Antaeus, is a very beautiful figure, in which the strength of Hercules as he crushes ...

— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 3 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna • Giorgio Vasari

Words linked to "Catena" : catenulate, catenate, concatenation, chain