[ US /kəˈtinə/ ]
[ UK /kætˈiːnɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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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  • Will R. Huysman on the Catholic Patristics starts off his new blog with a series of patristic catenae on a series of topics. Hyperekperissou
  • Vocab from The Varieties of Religious Experience aseity the property by which a being exists of and from itself; usually used in connection to God apodictic Necessarily or demonstrably true; incontrovertible.concatenated To connect or link in a series or chain.decide Of course, I already knew the definition; it's hardly an unusual word. Archive 2005-08-01
  • At Morrisville we pass the old flyover for the PRR Trenton Cut-off freight line. It has been rehabbed and new catenary installed.
  • Because of opposition to a catenary system, the surface system uses busses powered by compressed natural gas.
  • The time had come when a book of that kind was desirable and perhaps, subconsciously had been waited for, particularly by the women of the war generation and at the moment owed to the catenation of events which had nothing to do with the 'author and had nothing to do with its appearance. A Personal Confession of Faith
  • extended sense", but they are incapable of satisfying (B2), precisely because their way of satisfying (B1) is committed to a non-concatenative realization of syntactic structures. The Language of Thought Hypothesis
  • In subsequent analyses, we treated each protein separately, instead of concatenating the sequences.
  • Thirdly, regard new culture industry as the germinant product of catenary , network literature is provided more than traditional literature plasticity, open sex and extend a gender.
  • In general, these two closed chains are linked catenanes, and the type of linkage reflects a topological property of the original substrate.
  • It is hard not to see in the title of this thin book a concatenation of nullities. The Times Literary Supplement
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