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CATENA
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Irregular inflected form: catenae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("catena" is a kind of...):
chain; concatenation (a series of things depending on each other as if linked together)
Derivation:
catenate; catenulate (arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores)
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