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

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

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

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

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