catena Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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)

WordNet


Ca*te"na noun
Etymology
L., a chain.
Wordforms
plural Catene
Definitions
  1. A chain or series of things connected with each other.
    I have . . . in no case sought to construct those catenæ of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. C. J. Ellicott.

Webster 1913