pentad

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In the pentad of 1923-27, U. S. investors paid $34,806,783,000 for 36,965 different issues of bonds and stocks.

From Time Magazine Archive

The 'even' in the Sûtra is meant to intimate that the 'five five-people' can in no way mean the twenty-five categories, since there is no pentad of groups consisting of five each.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George

C. Wachsmuth.—The pentad arrangement in Dio and others.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Dio, Cassius

All things in which the temporal is concerned may be reduced to a pentad, namely, prothesis, thesis, antithesis, mesothesis and synthesis.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Indeed, the heptad of things finite is in all cases reducible to the pentad.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson