pentad

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Each of the decalogues is divided into two groups of five laws or pentads.

From The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History by Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple

Instead, they cast their important commands and laws into the form of pentads and decalogues.

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

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.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

That is the meaning of the much controverted Sutra: "Vrittayah panchatayych," "the vrittis, or modes of the mind, are pentads."

From An Introduction to Yoga by Besant, Annie Wood