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

In chapters xvii.-xix. most of the original laws are still arranged in the decalogue and pentad form.

From The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament by Kent, Charles Foster

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

From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton

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

The word pentad at once recalls to you the way in which the chemist speaks of a monad, triad, heptad, when he deals with elements.

From An Introduction to Yoga by Besant, Annie Wood