| Pronunciation: | | ku'teenu
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| Matching Terms: | | catenary, catenate, catenation, catenulate
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| | Definition: | | [n] 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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| | See Also: | | chain, concatenation |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ca*te"na\, n.; pl. {Catene}. [L., a chain.]
A chain or series of things connected with each other.
I have . . . in no case sought to construct those
caten[ae] of games, which it seems now the fashion of
commentators to link together. --C. J.
Ellicott.
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