Căt'e-nā, n.

n.; pl. CĀT'E-NÆ. [Lat., chain.] A series of things connected with each other, as a series of passages from writers serving to illustrate or explain a subject.

I have . . . in no case sought to construct those catenæ of names, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. C. J. Ellicott.