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

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

An element having a valence of one is a monad; of two, a dyad; three, a triad; four, tetrad; five, pentad; six, hexad, etc.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips

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 Kent, Charles Foster