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‖ catena|kəˈtiːnə|
[L. catēna chain.]
A chain, a connected series: a. (More fully catena patrum): A string or series of extracts from the writings of the fathers, forming a commentary on some portion of Scripture; also, a chronological series of extracts to prove the existence of a continuous tradition on some point of doctrine. Also transf.
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 64 For a parochiall Minister..to finish his circuit in..a Harmony and a Catena. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth I. 261 The ancient glosses and catenæ upon scripture. 1858R. Vaughan Ess. & Rev. I. 29 The authorship of many, though assigned in the catenæ to Origen, is..open to question. 1862Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. IV. 192 A catena of opinions in favour of an ecclesiastical system. 1882–3Schaff Relig. Encycl. I. 419 The true catena consists merely of extracts from a..number of exegetes.
b. generally. ‘Chain, string.’
1862Sat. Rev. 15 Mar. 303 The Mausoleum is mentioned as existing by a catena of writers reaching down to the 12th century of the Christian era. 1868Pall Mall G. 23 July 4 Carried down in an unbroken catena of conscious observance. 1883Spectator 6 Oct. 1274 His speech is but a catena of Tory platitudes writ large. 1884F. Harrison in 19th. Cent. Mar. 494 One long catena of difficulty.
c. In full soil catena (see quots.).
1935G. Milne in Soil Research IV. 194, I propose the word catena (Latin, = a chain). This term will help to indicate that the soils so grouped are linked by their topographic relationship. Ibid., The Uganda soils might be spoken of as the Bukalasa catena. 1954W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphology iv. 78 A soil catena consists of a group of soils within a particular soil region which developed from similar parent material but differ in the characteristics of their profiles because of the varying topographic and drainage conditions under which they formed. |