pentalogue

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English

Noun

pentalogue (plural pentalogues)

  1. A series of five statements.
    • 1870, Rural Carolinan, page 431:
      A few years ago, somebody in England published a little work which he called " Poultry Pentalogue," in which the whole art of fowl-breeding is summed up in five grand rules
    • 2003, Reading from Right to Left: Essays on the Hebrew Bible, page 297:
      The Double Pentalogue or Ten Commandments