Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A five-angled or a five-pointed figure; a pentagon or a pentacle. See pentacle and pentagram.
Wiktionary
- n. occult A five-pointed star (drawn with five straight lines).
- n. A pentagram (five-pointed star inscribed in a circle).
- n. rare A pentagon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare A pentagon.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon
Etymologies
- From pent- + angle. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That is, pent- in the original pentiz was “reheard” as a familiar element, as the pent- in words like pentangle.”
“She put on a record whose album cover had a pentangle on it, and Mark picked it up from the floor to look at it.”
“The simpler the rose, in its pentangle, five-petalled form, the more complex its spirit.”
“The AI has seized control of his carelessly placed laptop; the demon is, so to speak, out of the pentangle and”
“So there the pentangle painted new he on shield and coat did wear, as one of word most true and knight of bearing fair.”
“And why the pentangle is proper to that prince so noble”
“Then they brought him his blaxon that was of brilliant gules with the pentangle depicted in pure hue of gold.”
“Thin leather braids around both wrists and a pentangle hanging from his throat.”
“A stairway led down to a basement and another led up to what I supposed were bedrooms and maybe the room with the shaman stuff in it; the pentangle on the floor, or whatever.”
“I don't care what you like," she spat, breaking the spell that permitted the guitars to speak and reaching across the lines of the pentangle to take the Gibson by the neck.”
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