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.
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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.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
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 George Barton Cutten
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 George Thibaut
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 Annie Wood Besant
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