Catena \Ca*te"na\, n.; pl. {Catene}. [L., a chain.]
A chain or series of things connected with each other.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster] Catenary