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The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
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ogdoad
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ogdoad \og"do*ad\ ([o^]g"d[-o]*[a^]d), n. [Gr. 'ogdoa`s, 'ogdoa`dos, from 'oktw` eight.] A thing made up of eight parts. --Milman.
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n. A thing made up of eight parts.
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The concept of an Ogdoad appears in Gnostic systems of the early Christian era, and was further developed by the theologian Valentinus ( ca . 160 AD). The number eight plays an important part in Gnostic systems, and it is necessary to distinguish the different ...
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n. the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one [syn: eight , 8 , VIII , eighter , eighter from Decatur , octad , octonary , octet ]
Usage examples of ogdoad.
Reasoning in this way, the Egyptians naturally tended towards that conception of the divine oneness to which the theory of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad was already leading them.
Nuit, Hehu and Hehit, Kaku and Kakit, Ninu and Ninit, the god One and the god Eight, the Monad and the Ogdoad.