ennead

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In an episode near and dear to this writer's heart, we welcome Cannibal Corpse bassist Alex Webster and Order of ennead bassist Scott Patrick for a special Death Metal episode of the Skull Sessions!

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  1. noun A group or set of nine.

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  • In an episode near and dear to this writer's heart, we welcome Cannibal Corpse bassist Alex Webster and Order of ennead bassist Scott Patrick for a special Death Metal episode of the Skull Sessions! —  Roadrunner Records Latest News
  • Romans, who made the last day of _the first ennead_ to be also the first day _of the second_. —  Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War
  • And NINE, or the ennead, also, being the multiple of —  Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
  • _, Karnak), the holy soul who came into being in the beginning, the great god who liveth by right and truth, the first ennead who gave birth unto the other two enneads, [Footnote: _i. e._, the great, the little, and the least companies of the gods; each company (_paut_) contained nine gods.] the being in whom every god existeth, the One of One, the creator of the things which came into being when the earth took form in the beginning, whose births are hidden, whose forms are manifold, and whose growth cannot be known. —  Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
 

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  1. Greek enneas, ennead-, from ennea, nine; see newn̥ in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek ἐννεάς (ἐννεαδ-), a body of nine, the number nine, from ἐννέα = English nine. Cf. enneatic.
 

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