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pentagram
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Word definitions for pentagram in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Cut an apple across the middle and the center will reveal a perfect pentagram . ▪ It was draped with a black cloth and embroidered with a gold pentagram . ▪ She has clearly made a lot of sacrifices in her life-mostly involving ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pentagram \Pen"ta*gram\, n. [Gr. ?, neut. of ? having five lines. See Penta- , and -gram .] A pentacle or a pentalpha. ``Like a wizard pentagram.'' --Tennyson.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha or pentangle or a star pentagon ) is the shape of a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes. The word pentagram comes from the Greek word πεντάγραμμον ( pentagrammon ), from πέντε ( pente ), "five" ...
Usage examples of pentagram.
This time, when she glanced up, Jill could see the ward, a glowing sphere offeree capping the temple compound, all marked with strange sigils and flaming pentagrams.
Drawing and redrawing the circles, triangles, rhomboids, pentagrams, rectangles, sine curves and twisted ovals of infinity, they smoothed them away once again, and began again.
They used it in their architecture and pyramids, in their Pythagorean pentagram and Fibonacci sequence.
There they stood in their pentagrams, staring at that huge globe representing Akahlar, the hubs brightly glowing against the gray, semi-transparent skin of the rest, and something was happening.
Various items were found in his room, including a funeral register upon which he had drawn a pentagram and upside-down crosses and had copied spells.
The pale silver dome covered fully an acre, and it was marked at the four cardinal points and the zenith by flaming pentagrams traced in different colors and set round with the sigils of the elements.
Then they threw some pentagrams around and copied runes out of a book.
It is a complicated matter of runes and pentagrams, fragrant herbs and words of power, which I will not describe to you because it would permanently unhinge your already weak mind, old fellow.
Every sunset, when the tide of the element of Water began to flow on the astral, and at midnight, when that gave way to Earth, and again at dawn, when the Aethyr burgeoned, the two dweomermen made a magical sphere of blue light all round the dun and set it with seals in the shape of flaming pentagrams.
There arranged in all their splendour round the pentagram, were the Kings of the Elements, Aethyr, Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, each a pillar and a blaze of many-coloured light pulsating at a point of the star.
Anders usually has us sketching something or other: pentagrams, north/south apogees…you name it, we’ve traced it.
The Inverted Pentagram --- Baphomet --- the Hermaphrodite fully grown --- begets himself on himself as V again.
Abercrombie was chalking a pentagram on the floor while a sputtering Malzius had been deputized to sterilize a pocket knife with match.
This is what you might call the all-purpose pentagram - drawn this way it always has a positive influence.
He gestured to the chalk lines at his feet, to indicate that he might not step outside the protection of the pentagram.