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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A thing made up of eight parts, as a poem of eight lines, a body of eight persons, or the like.
  • noun In Gnosticism: In the system of Basilides (see Basilidianism), a group of eight divine beings, namely the supreme god and the seven most direct emanations from him; according to another authority, the ethereal region where the great archon sits at the right hand of his father.
  • noun In the system of Valentinus, a group of eight divine beings called eons.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A thing made up of eight parts.

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  • noun A thing made up of eight parts.

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  • noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one

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Ancient Greek

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