pentalogy

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I managed to find an old copy of The Stainless Rat's Revenge for £2 in my local Oxfam, always a good place to find sci-fi and fantasy novels, though you'd be lucky to find a complete series and often have to start a trilogy or pentalogy with the second book.

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  1. Five mutually connected parts or principles; a pentad; specifically, a fivefold classification; the doctrine of the fivefoldness of the universe. It is easy to see that the desire to find a pentalogy in everything has led to somewhat fanciful distinctions, that there will necessarily be much overlapping in the practical application of a scheme of anthropology so formed. Athenæum, June 18, 1904, p. 788.

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  • I managed to find an old copy of The Stainless Rat's Revenge for £2 in my local Oxfam, always a good place to find sci-fi and fantasy novels, though you'd be lucky to find a complete series and often have to start a trilogy or pentalogy with the second book. —  SFX
 

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  1. Greek πέντε, five, + -λογια, from λέγειν, speak.
 

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