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Synonyms for pentagram

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pen-tuh-gram
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛn təˌgræm

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Définition of pentagram

Origin :
  • "five-pointed star," 1820, from Greek pentagrammon, noun use of neuter of adj. pentagrammos "having five lines," from pente "five" (see five) + gramma "what is written" (see grammar).
  • As in five : noun five of something
Example sentences :
  • Then he calls a rat to gnaw a gap in the pentagram, and escapes.
  • Extract from : « The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' » by H. B. Cotterill
  • "The virtues of the Pentagram endure," he said, with absolute self-possession.
  • Extract from : « The Prince of India, Volume I » by Lew. Wallace
  • Pentagram, pen′ta-gram, n. a five-pointed star: a magic figure so called.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
  • The floor was of red lacquer, and in it was inlaid a pentagram the size of the room, made of wide strips of brass.
  • Extract from : « Black Spirits and White » by Ralph Adams Cram
  • In the centre of this pentagram was a circular disk of black stone, slightly saucer-shaped, with a small outlet in the middle.
  • Extract from : « Black Spirits and White » by Ralph Adams Cram
  • It was to the Pentagram Circle that I first broached the new conceptions that were developing in my mind.
  • Extract from : « The New Machiavelli » by Herbert George Wells
  • By producing each side of this latter figure the five-pointed star (fig. 9), known as the pentagram, is obtained.
  • Extract from : « Bygone Beliefs » by H. Stanley Redgrove
  • For you the circle has not been traced nor the pentagram fixed, for you no law has been thrust down.
  • Extract from : « The Thing from the Lake » by Eleanor M. Ingram
  • Working together, we had once carved a pentagram in the side of this tree-trunk.
  • Extract from : « On the Future of our Educational Institutions » by Friedrich Nietzsche
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