heptad
Example Sentences
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Seven, or the heptad, is a number very powerful for good or for evil.
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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 Henry Nelson Coleridge
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
Later on every idea will be a heptad, made up of seven elements.
From An Introduction to Yoga by Annie Wood Besant
Colours may best be expressed by a heptad, the largest possible formula for things finite, as the pentad is the smallest possible form.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
