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pentad

[ pen-tad ]

noun

  1. a period of five years.
  2. a group of five.
  3. the number five.
  4. Chemistry. a pentavalent element or group.
  5. Climatology. a period of five consecutive days.


pentad

/ ˈɛԳæ /

noun

  1. a group or series of five
  2. the number or sum of five
  3. a period of five years
  4. chem a pentavalent element, atom, or radical
  5. meteorol a period of five days
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pentad1

First recorded in 1645–55; from Greek pentad- (stem of Գá ) group of five; pent-, -ad 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pentad1

C17: from Greek pentas group of five
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“I was like what, what is this?” said Ms. Cunningham, 40, recalling a late-night phone conversation with Michael Harris in January 2017, in which he preached of the pentad: 1.

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The number Five, or the pentad, has a peculiar force in sacred expiations; it is everything; it stops the power of poisons, and is redoubted by evil spirits.

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Perseverance is the endurance in one or other of these pentads until the attainment of the desired end, and is distributed into the differenced and the rest.

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Five, or the pentad, is everything; it stops the power of poisons, and is dreaded by evil spirits.

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The Sâ@nkhya categories have each their individual difference, and there are no attributes belonging in common to each pentad on account of which the number twenty-five could be divided into five times five.

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