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单词 catena
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catenan.

Brit. /kəˈtiːnə/, U.S. /kəˈtinə/
Etymology: < Latin 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 transferred.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > patristics > Fathers of the Church > [noun] > writings of
collationc1200
the four books (or the Book) of the Sentence(sa1387
catena1644
didache1853
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 27 For a parochiall Minister..to finish his circuit in..a Harmony and a Catena.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 261 The ancient glosses and catenæ upon scripture.
1858 R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Remains I. 29 The authorship of many, though assigned in the catenæ to Origen, is..open to question.
1862 F. D. Maurice Mod. Philos. 192 A catena of opinions in favour of an ecclesiastical system.
1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 419 The true catena consists merely of extracts from a..number of exegetes.
b. generally. ‘Chain, string’.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > a series or succession
row?1510
processiona1564
sequencea1575
succession1579
pomp1595
suite1597
rosary1604
sequel1615
series1618
rope1621
success1632
concatenation1652
sorites1664
string1713
chain1791
course1828
serie1840
daisy chain1856
nexus1858
catena1862
litany1961
1862 Sat. 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.
1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 July 4 Carried down in an unbroken catena of conscious observance.
1883 Spectator 6 Oct. 1274 His speech is but a catena of Tory platitudes writ large.
1884 F. Harrison in 19th Cent. Mar. 494 One long catena of difficulty.
c. In full soil catena (see quots.).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > soil group
series1904
soil series1905
soil class1913
soil group1921
catena1935
soil association1939
1935 G. 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.
1935 G. Milne in Soil Research IV. 194 The Uganda soils might be spoken of as the Bukalasa catena.
1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. 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.
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