Crossword clues for ennead
ennead
- Trio tripled
- The Supreme Court, for one
- The Muses, as a group
- Supreme Court or baseball team, e.g
- The Supreme Court or the starting lineup of the Washington Nationals, e.g
- The Supreme Court or the Muses
- The Supreme Court is one
- The planets in our solar system, once
- The Muses, for one
- Thalia, Clio et al
- Term for a group of nine
- Supreme Court, e.g
- Sudoku grouping, e.g
- Not quite a decade
- Nonet kin
- Nine-item group
- Diamond group, e.g
- Complement of fingers after an accident, maybe?
- Cluster of nine
- Baseball team or innings
- Ball team, e.g
- Any group of nine
- Nonet, for one
- Group of nine things
- Supreme Court, e.g.
- Supreme Court justices, e.g.
- The Supreme Court, e.g.
- Supreme Court, for one
- The Muses, e.g.
- Group of 112-Down
- Baseball team or the Supreme Court
- Octad plus one
- Party of nine
- Santa's reindeer, counting Rudolph
- The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
- Mets or Cubs
- Diamond group, e.g.
- Thalia, Clio et al.
- Set of nine
- N.L. team
- A baseball team
- Supreme Court justices, e.g
- Three trios joined together
- The Muses, e.g
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ennead \En"ne*ad\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, fr. 'enne`a nine.] The number nine or a group of nine.
The Enneads, the title given to the works of the philosopher Plotinus, published by his pupil Porphyry; -- so called because each of the six books into which it is divided contains nine chapters.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"group of nine things," 1650s, from Greek enneas (genitive enneados) "group of nine," from ennea "nine" (see nine). Especially in reference to the divisions of Porphyry's collection of the neo-Platonic doctrines of Plotinus. Related: enneadic.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The number nine. 2 Any system or grouping containing nine objects.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The Ennead (, meaning a collection of nine things) was a group of nine deities in Egyptian mythology. The Ennead were worshipped at Heliopolis and consisted of the god Atum, his children Shu and Tefnut, their children Geb and Nut and their children Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.
Usage examples of "ennead".
Behind him, good folk would soon be, fighting for their lives against Ennead killers.
Whatever the Ennead had taken from them, they still had light enough for that.
He had said few words in his nine years and six, except the words the Ennead sent him to say.
Perhaps they would all make a home together somewhere, if the stewards won their battle, if the rumored Darkmage and his rebel horde succeeded in bringing the Ennead down They could start a village of their own, band together to put the horror of this place behind them forever, work to make a new life.
Ennead cloaks, saw pale faces never graced by sunshine floating over the dark velvet livery the Ennead had lately adopted for their private stewards.
Torrin was the dark betrayer, the man who drove the light from Eiden Myr and toppled the Ennead that protected it from disaster and storm.
Being proxy meant you could speak for the Ennead, except that there were two kinds of proxies, reckoners and warders, and his parents were warders, which meant they stayed here in the Holding to work for the Ennead.
When he showed a light, it would be so bright that the Ennead would call him to be a vocate, and then he could get a ring and be a reckoner.
The Ennead had surreptitiously removed the freedom when they cast her warder.
Ennead was strong, and stronger for what that Ennead had done to them.
The rift between warder and reckoner had begun under that Ennead, was one of its nasty byblows.
He had calculated precisely the reaction an Ennead name would engender.
I aided them both as I continued to run my reckoners rather than openly defy the Ennead and be destroyed by them.
Not even the Ennead, manipulating their web of mages from their dark fastness.
We lost all the protections of magelight because the Lightbreaker decided it was the only way to stop the Ennead doing harm.