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  • The other I called a Dyad, which showed itself in anger in deeds of violence, in deeds of passion and lust -- but

    Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

  • The Dyad is a secondary; deriving from unity, it finds in unity the determinant needed by its native indetermination: once there is any determination, there is Number, in the sense, of course, of the real [the archetypal] Number.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • Already Plato had apparently spoken about the ˜Monad™ and the ˜unrestricted Dyad™; together, these principles not only bring forth an entire realm of mathematical principles and numbers, but also account for any kind of unified individuality and diversity throughout the hierarchy of being.

    Syrianus Wildberg, Christian 2009

  • After years of being hounded by hunters to make a folding knife that includes both a serrated and a skinning blade, Spyderco developed its C44 Dyad.

    Spyderco C44 Dysad 1999

  • But of this Dyad a second was produced, one part of whom he names Pater, and the other Aletheia.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • And, again, the Dyad advancing from itself [by twos] up to six -- two, and four, and six -- brings out the Duodecad.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • From this again proceeded the Dyad, the Tetrad, the Pentad, and the manifold generation of the others.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • The first [2799] of them, Valentinus, who adapted the principles of the heresy called "Gnostic" to the peculiar character of his own school, taught as follows: He maintained that there is a certain Dyad (twofold being), who is inexpressible by any name, of whom one part should be called Arrhetus (unspeakable), and the other Sige

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Blending in one the production of their own AEons, and the straying and recovery of the sheep [spoken of in the Gospel [2864]], these persons endeavour to set forth things in a more mystical style, while they refer everything to numbers, maintaining that the universe has been formed out of a Monad and a Dyad.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • A Lens was identified and tracked traveling rapidly away from Dyad - dub, in the direction of Zebub, in an otherwise undetectable spaceship.

    The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981

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