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 Charles Foster Kent
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 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
C. Wachsmuth.—The pentad arrangement in Dio and others.
